{"id":6364,"date":"2020-04-28T13:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pgesafetyeducation.com\/school\/?page_id=6364"},"modified":"2020-09-22T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:33:16","slug":"66302-electrical-safety-world-video-episode-1-transcript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pgesafetyeducation.com\/school\/teachers-homepage\/66302-electrical-safety-world-video-episode-1-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical Safety World Video Episode 1 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

Episode 1: Electricity Basics<\/h1><\/div>

[ Music ]\n[ A large title appears: “Electricity Basics”. A smaller title appears under it: “How does electricity…get to my lights?” ]<\/p>\n

>> I want to know, how does…<\/p>\n

>> electricity…<\/p>\n

>> get to my lights?<\/p>\n

[ Five kids gather around a colorful model of a town. One boy carries in a portable studio light and sets it up nearby. ]<\/p>\n

>> Whatcha doing?<\/p>\n

>> We’re trying to figure out how the lights turn on.<\/p>\n

>> With the switch?<\/p>\n

>> Ha, very funny, Julie.<\/p>\n

[ A flashing message appears: “movie set” ]<\/p>\n

>> We’re trying to find out how the electricity gets to here and turns on the light for our movie set.<\/p>\n

>> Oh.<\/p>\n

>> You know, I can show you how it gets here. You’re not the only one who’s smart around here, McKenzie, so pay attention. I don’t want you to miss my one moment when I knew something that you didn’t. Here we go. Electricity is produced at a power plant. Power plants can make electricity in different ways, by harnessing the energy from moving water, sunshine, heat from the earth, wind, uranium, or fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

[ A message appears: “Fossil Fuels = Oil, Coal, Natural Gas ]<\/p>\n

>> Once it’s been created, the electricity gets pushed out of the power plant through large transmission lines and towers. Transmission towers carry very high-power electricity to substations, where the strength of electricity is reduced so it won’t blow up your house when it gets there. You never want to go into a substation, or climb a transmission tower either.<\/p>\n

>> Yeah. You’d be toast.<\/p>\n

>> Well, really, no one should be touching electricity of any kind. That’s really dangerous.<\/p>\n

>> From the substation, electricity will travel on the overhead or underground power lines to your home, your school, where your parents work-all these places get their power from your substation.<\/p>\n

>> So how does electricity know where it’s going?<\/p>\n

[ Flashing yellow arrows depict electricity travelling along power lines in a closed loop that includes a power plant, a transmission tower, a substation, a utility pole, and a home. ]<\/p>\n

>> All electricity travels in a closed path called a circuit. It will continue to travel this path as long as something doesn’t interrupt it.<\/p>\n

>> Electricity always tries to get to the earth. It’s called grounding.<\/p>\n

>> That’s right. So if you touch a live circuit, the electricity will travel to the ground.<\/p>\n

>> Right through you?<\/p>\n

>> Yep, right through you!<\/p>\n

>> So if you touch electricity with a part of your body or a ladder or a tool you’re holding, then you will conduct electricity to the ground and be seriously hurt, or even killed.<\/p>\n

[ A man touches a power line with a ladder. Electricity flows through him to the ground. The universal NO sign appears with a message: “Stay at least 10 feet away from all power lines!” ]<\/p>\n

>> And obviously by touching any of these highly charged electrical things…<\/p>\n

[ A transmission tower, a substation, a pad-mounted transformer, and a utility pole-mounted transformer appear with universal NO signs flashing on them. ]<\/p>\n

>> You’d be toast!<\/p>\n

>> It’s really amazing that such an easy action like turning on the lights, takes so much work.<\/p>\n

>> No kidding, huh.<\/p>\n

[ The word “Electricity” appears. ]<\/p>\n

>> So now we’ve learned…<\/p>\n

>> where it comes from….<\/p>\n

>> how it gets here…<\/p>\n

>> and why it’s so important to use it safely.<\/p>\n

[ Music ]\n[ Culver logo and “copyright 2009 Culver Media, LLC” appear, followed by credits.]<\/p>\n<\/div>

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