northern europe has been actually quite damn hot for about a week. but i get your point. it's just a summer heat wave at the HEIGHT of the summer season.
I used to design transformer housing in the UK. Heat was never a consideration of the design of the construction beyond the oil as you mentioned.
The main worry for fire is from arcing. In an 11kV the distance between uninsulated current carrying bars must be 30mm or more. The bar I worked with was 10mm thick and 50mm wide chrome plated copper.
In a domestic setting arcing is a cause. Overloading a single socket is also common, especially in older houses which tend to have fewer outlets per room and rely on fuses rather than Residual Current Device circuit breakers (RCDs).
So, it wouldn't surprise me if there were more fires in a hot summer but, as with all news, choosing what to report, even if it is true, is a form of manipulation.
There's also the Baader-Meinhof effect to contend with. Just like the food processing plant fires - are they more prevalent or are we just noticing them all?
northern europe has been actually quite damn hot for about a week. but i get your point. it's just a summer heat wave at the HEIGHT of the summer season.
oh shit. good point o.o
HEAT WAVES IN THE SUMMER FUCKING HAPPEN
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE IS AT THE HEIGHT OF FUCKING SUMMER
these people need to SERIOUSLY STOP making it sound like (insert year here) is the FIRST time things happened in the history of mankind ffs
Is that Parliament burning?
[Wishful thinking]
2 degrees hotter than recorded history, 10 degrees more than last year.
And yes, it does make a difference.
Passive cooling relies on a temperature gradient.
Electronics which rely on passive cooling cannot dump excess heat and get hotter and hotter.
Fire = Fuel + Oxygen + Ignition Temperature
Houses don't have transformers
The peak temperature of 2021 was also Heathrow on 18 July with 31.6 °C
OK, not quite 10C
I never mentioned brush, but I do remember the brush fire near me in 2019 on Saddleworth Moor
House fires in the UK are thankfully rare these days, so a rash of them is quite newsworthy, agenda driven or not.
Keep up the great work, and I mean that sincerely
I used to design transformer housing in the UK. Heat was never a consideration of the design of the construction beyond the oil as you mentioned.
The main worry for fire is from arcing. In an 11kV the distance between uninsulated current carrying bars must be 30mm or more. The bar I worked with was 10mm thick and 50mm wide chrome plated copper.
In a domestic setting arcing is a cause. Overloading a single socket is also common, especially in older houses which tend to have fewer outlets per room and rely on fuses rather than Residual Current Device circuit breakers (RCDs).
So, it wouldn't surprise me if there were more fires in a hot summer but, as with all news, choosing what to report, even if it is true, is a form of manipulation.
There's also the Baader-Meinhof effect to contend with. Just like the food processing plant fires - are they more prevalent or are we just noticing them all?