Wildlife could pose 'catastrophic' risks for power grids, experts say



Animals can disrupt the flow of electricity to households by breaking into electrical substations.

Original source (ABC/Youtube)

23 comments

  1. The USA is the enemy of humanity!

  2. Humans cause catastrophic to planet, trees and wildlife 😳. Humans have almost decimated forests that wildlife live in! Pollution over and under water is upsetting humans! Someone needs to stop the humans from causing irreparable damage to this world. Maybe if we go out with guns and trawlers and kill humans for fun! Ohh that's right we don't have the means to manufacture guns or plastic etc . 😞

  3. Well we need to cancel electricity obviously then.
    And everyone needs a bicycle, no more cars.
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  4. REALLY ??? Blame it on wildlife , that ya all is killing off..

  5. China solved it by creating nests for the birds.

  6. WTF!? Power grids pose catastrophic risks for wildlife. Freaking idiots!!

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  8. We bought our house 10 years ago and I began feeding the birds.
    Within 6 months there was an enormous explosion in our backyard. The thick, copper wires coming from the transformer, on a pole along the fence, were gone. We were told a bird had bridged the wires and, basically, ceased to exist. Along with the copper.
    I stopped feeding the birds but it happened a few more times. One day the utility moved the transformer two polls down the street and it never happened again.

  9. So you mean to tell me we haven't made advances in carrying electrical currents since the cowboy days? Stop surpressing free energy.

  10. Humans pose a catastrophic problem to the entire Earth 🌎 literally we are killing it faster than it can fix itself. Flint Michigan still doesn't have clean water, Lake Mead is nearly gone New Mexico is on fire and the Rio Grande is nearly non-existing as well. Ya'll worried about wildlife and the power gird when we are literally building where they live🤦🏽‍♀️ Where are they supposed to go 🤔 you can't get rid of them without killing humans and the earth faster.

  11. I think that not building and upgrading power grids is more catastrophic.

  12. More nonsense from the MSM to drum up fear and panic.

  13. Put thorns in wires from now on

  14. is there a shortage of razor wire?

  15. BIRDS ARE NOT REAL!!!! These bird drones are charging on the power lines.

  16. Perhaps if we stopped using 1800s civil engineering concepts and put these power lines UNDER GROUND we would not have to worry about this.

  17. Power grids could pose 'catastrophic' risks for wildlife. That's a more accurate

  18. Don't worry this won't be a problem in 30 years.

  19. We've had the same exact problem since 1922 and it's about time that ABC News has finally gotten around to learning about that problem as well as the rest of us since the rest of us have known about it for 100 years!! It's a brand new thing for the news channel!! But then, ABC News has never been high on the list of very informed news channels!! As a matter of fact, there is no news on ABC News!! Didn't you know, ABC News is staffed by journalists and journalists are not news reporters!! They are news interpreters! They try to tell you what the news means to you and they have never met you they know nothing about you and they know nothing about the news they are reporting! No news reporters and only journalist in today's media! That's the problem with today's media! Everybody gives their own slant and nobody tells the truth!!!!

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  21. America's so embarrassing in other countries they They put the wire underneath ground to prevent birds weather And even cars from hitting it America has a huge spending problem.That's why your dollar worth nothing

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