Rap News: The Energy Crisis!
Published on Feb 27, 2014: RAP NEWS 22 [S02:E02]. Like […]
Date Posted:
March 1, 2014
Published on Feb 27, 2014: RAP NEWS 22 [S02:E02]. Like many others who preceded us, our “civilisation” faces an Energy Crisis of megawattic proportions, which threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride. But our dirty little secret is seldom mentioned in the news, let alone connected to economic instability or to environmental effects on our planet. It falls to Robert Foster to bring this topic back into the fore of our consciousness, where he conducts an incisive analysis of the situation to see what solutions are out there to deal with peak energy.
Join your ever-curious anchor as he invites a panoply of guests – the great, the good, the bizarre, and the downright trollsome – along to share their solutions to this crisis. In the end, the shift required might have to be psychological as well as technological. Enjoy the ride, fellow children of the industrial revolution.
CREDITS
Written & created by Giordano Nanni & Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home studio in Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri Land.
BEAT: “Intro” by TunnA Beatz tunnabeatz.com
Copernicus theme composed by Adrian Sergovich
Thanks to Ming Lang superawesomeparty.com for so incredible acting performance as Wai So Dim, and for again providing the voice of Tony Abbott. And to Zoë Umlaut for Virgin flight attendant support to Mr. Branson.
Animations by Rap News fx-wizard, Jonas Schweizer – aka Kookybone
Terrence Moonseed alien weapon animation by Reuben Braithwaite
Images by Photoshop ninja Zoe Tame: visualtonic.com.au
Make-up courtesy of Rosie Dunlop
Props to Zoë Umlaut from Umlautronics for creating props and to Gilles Gundermann for providing all of the Copernicus props.
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THORIUM. NO MENTION OF THORIUM, THIS NEEDS TO BE AMENDED. UPVOTE IF YOU
AGREE>>>
The technology exists to conquer the energy crisis. We just need to throw
money at it.
Nuclear. Nothing is more safer (do not reply if you have irritable bowel
syndrome).
Love your work guys
THESE GUYS ARE GREAT…. CHECK THEM OUT :)
MUCH LOVE
Brilliant as always!
Hilarious!!!
Awesome!
You’re becoming ever better!
Word
My favorite Rap News so far!
the answer is simple. just allow price to do what price does. if we are
really running out of fossil fuels than this will be reflected in a rising
price. a rising price of fossil fuels will naturally guide the efforts of
entrepreneurs in the direction of alternative energy sources. this is what
markets do if they are just allowed to be free. unfortunately the
government is very heavily involved in this industry, i.e. the wars that we
all know are about oil. get the government out of the way and let price do
its thing and this problem will evaporate.
While I disagree with the overall message (I’m not that much of a climate
change skeptic, but peak oil is a myth) I found this hilarious.
The pipeline will be built!
Copernicus? and this was written and created by Giordano Bru… i mean & Hugo… oh the coincidences!
Donation page: please provide an QR Code for the Bitcoin address.
hell yes i love being depressed and feeling helpless on the fridays when rap new post
China appears to have an interesting plan for Tibet…
Fuck – Richard Branson looks like the late paedophile Jimmy Saville.
Good stuff :-)
Another brilliant thought provoking message from +thejuicemedia
As always, don’t take everything you see or hear as gospel. That’s not the
goal. The goal is to get you thinking – to get your juices flowing so to
speak ;)
#RapNews22
…keeps gettin’ better.
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Howled with laughter at the Branson/Elon Musk hip hop duo XD Great stuff
guys, funny yet cerebral as ever!
Brilliant,as usual! :-)
bloody brilliant… loved the asteroids coming at earth in the end….
brace ya selves… this rides about to end
Re-proposed the heliocentric system, Copernicus cited Aristarchus in an
early (unpublished) manuscript of De Revolutionibus (which still survives)
so he was clearly aware of at least one previous proponent of the
heliocentric thesis. However, in the published version he restricts himself
to noting that in works by Cicero he had found an account of the theories
of Hicetas.
Great stuff again.
Love this it just breaks it all down and leaves it naked on the floor. DEAL
WITH IT
awesome beat, cool message :D
I for one appreciate the humor you guys add to these videos. Don’t listen to those morons whining about sexism and racism.
Thumbs up here! Although i disagree with the criticism concerning asteroid mining. I think mining asteroids is much better than mining the earth, and the dangers are virtually nill. It should be very easy to mine an asteroid safely without it getting on a collision course with the planet. It would also give us some practice on how to divert ones that are on a collision course. Mining on earth usually seems to involve toxic tailing ponds that have been shown time and again to leak into the mainwater rivers and lakes. -from a concerned citizen of northern ontario, canada, near where the “ring of fire” future mining operation is proposed to be.
great work
GUYS i just saw your vid posed on RT i was just thinking what would happen when the mass media picks up your vids and you become rich and famous haha but on RT some people had a problem with your message that was the first time i have ever seen negative comments BUT the media is watching you it could be a good thing or a day thing what DO u think about RT picking up your vid
Only leaked 12 times lol!
Robert Foster, truht with style!
Still a rap news fan, but this one is off the mark I think.
excellent as always
I worry about this stuff at night. There is an energy crisis, but how do we convince the government to implement clean energy and and turn away from fossil fuels? Our daily lives are so dependent on fossil fuels that I think it will take decades to even start to see change, or maybe I am just be pessimistic? Either way I believe there is an energy crisis and something needs to be done, but how? Also another great broadcast from thejuicemedia,
Epic.
Solar power is the answer, then. Greater efficiency panels covering all
deserts and perhaps someday the Moon if Tesla had any foresight. Mirrors
and panels; preferably in a vacuum.
Another rap news for you, watch it quick before the energy runs out and/or
we destroy the environment.
Investigate a resource based economy.
Meh. What if young people today where not sold conspiracy theories as the
“cool thing” to believe in. They might focus on the actual problems of the
legislative process and make some real changes.
*This is brilliant!*
Most awesome creative stuff even seen ….
Loved it! Great job!
Awesome video… well done….
I can’t quit you!
I’ll admit that I don’t get the prescriptive element in this. Or is it supposed to? I get the T. Kuhn angle of a ‘paradigm shift’ (or Foucault; I don’t know why Copernicus is used to relay this idea) and the proscriptive elements, but is there some kind of ‘solar energy good’ position posited in this? It is sort of mocked as relevant with Elon’s part; it is used allegorically as sun/heliocentric = enlightenment as a perceptive paradigm shift, but otherwise i get the feeling of a prescriptive tone with no prescriptive content. =/ ???
absolutely amazing, as always
I must be very much in the darkness. I didn’t get the point you were trying to make and it’s frustrating.
It’s funny cuz it’s true!!!!
Excellent video and a very original way of presenting the real problems that started a few years ago, but are now starting to pick up speed very fast…you think Greece, Ukraine, Venezuela, Egypt, etc are separate problems…they are all related…when we started the industrial revolution, we were a planet with relatively few humans and plenty of resources…now , a short 250 years later, we are a planet full of humans and scarce resources..and THAT is why shit has been hitting the fan since the Great Recession started in 2007-08 (which will be PERMANENT and get worse as the years go by)…..there is not enough resources to go around for everybody!
Groovy!! this is nice one.
Legalize Cannabis.
All news should be in either this format or comedic format.
The point being made was pointed out in the end quite clearly. It was almost as if he is familiar with the books from Daniel Quinn (Ishmael, Story of B, etc).
“If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.” ― Daniel Quinn, The Story of B
lol @ Copernicus saying noobs.
F@$&ing amazing!! I think this episode is the best Rap News so far
More news programmes should show this, this is amazing!
Robert Foster explains the concept of energy returned on energy invested
(EROEI), says there is an energy crisis in the works, and that if
Copernicus were alive today he would be a staunch advocate for solar
energy.
Unfortunate single use of the “f” word means this cannot be used in
classrooms — where it would likely go over well, otherwise!
*The Energy Crisis – RAP NEWS*
(06:25 min)
very amusing! well done.
Is it ‘One Coal Policy’ or ‘Yuan Coal Policy’?
Is it ‘One Coal Policy’ or ‘Yuan Coal Policy’?
woohoo
Excellent! When are you going to make a video on the whale predators? You
know the whale murdering humans.
Great work as usual.
You still have an open invitation to join our TNAM Radio show whenever you
can find the time.
Thanks,
Brian,
The New American Media
Use them volcanos already! dam it!
Your quality of videos are going down the drain. Your videos used to be funny and intelligent.
Although, it does somewhat convey that fossil fuels need to be phased out, I’m not that impressed with this.
Epic, definitely would have been more Epic if you used Nikola Tesla for some Free Energy Truth
lol – That makes the catastrope looming much more bearable!
Genius!!!!
READ NBC NEWS WEBSITE ON BITECOIN!
you should make somthing about ukraina situation
no thorium?
Awesome as always!
Just to clarify…. Climate change is real.
I just googled Terrence Moonseed. You got me Rap news. Ill show myself out.
Hemp
+The Peak Oil Company
These 2 guys are very bright!!!
YES! YES! YEEEES!
BRILLIANT…
God help us…
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This goes a lot deeper than most people understand. Each sentence Robert
says carry’s serious weight friends. His videos are a good place to start
understanding whats going on.
Fuck health when there is money to be made!
Awesome.
Love this!
I am subscribed. Why are your new videos not in my subscription folder?
pretty cool!!! good works guys.
Probably my favorite channel on all of youtube.
Keep up the great work!!!
Yeah Yeah cool ass raps much more is necessary!¡%©
Wai So Dim “it total success”
What? No mention of Nuclear power and how the military stopped research into safe Thorium Salt Reactors in favor of the dangerous kind that explode so they could build weapons out the waste materials? Moonseed you let us down!
Haha, brilliant!
So how long did it take you guys to decide whether or not the Chinese dude
was racist lol
You HAVE to watch this if energy and the environment is your thing at all!
Enjoy… :)
#music #socialchange
There is a slight (and I mean slight) language warning towards the end ;-)
Six and a half minutes of good fun
Brilliant!
Good episode. And so soon after the last one.
This is so fantastic
I very much enjoyed it, except that I did have a hard time with the part
where the woman was spanked without her consent.
cool, except for the fact that Obama voted to cancel construction of the
pipeline
http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-cancels-keystone-xl-pipeline-to-his-own-political-peril
pretty cool XD
GOLD!
Furious fun!
revolutionary
Super tight! Love the Tony Abbot appearance
“it’s fine, it’s only leaked 12 times so far”
The Energy Crisis — [RAP NEWS 22]: http://youtu.be/Q_xI_8aLjds
Free energy: crystals, alien technology and hemp.
Great episode!
to bad most people are to busy watching duck dynasty and eating mcdonalds to care about any of this. i feel like i look around and see nothing more than good dogs well trained to do as its master says and to stupid to realize that running free thew a forest is better for a dog than sitting shaking and rolling over day in and day out
Seriously amazing work.
awesome…
I love the fact that all your “correspondents” from the past call us all n00bs :P
The Energy Crisis — [RAP NEWS 22]
you got to listen to this more than once
Climate Change
Copernicus, Musk, and Branson make cameos on Juice News. Perhaps the universe is contracting after all…
“Yes, we Ameri-can”
I love your channel but this video knocked you guys down a peg in my book
Note that Copernicus never revealed his stuff while alive they found it when he was dead. A better person would be Giordano Bruno.
I lost it at Wai So Dim
I’m chinese and i’m kinda offended by the sterotyped representation, but the facts are real :/ Beijing is a hell hole and the companies dont give a shet about the ecosystem.
This is an entertaining way to look at the nergy crisis
Bringing Nicolaus Copernicus on the show was just genious!
cool ep, calling it Tar Sands? more like Oil Sands… more sandy oil than
oily sands in some places, anyways can’t go wrong calling it bituminous
sands.
water is energy. 322 The Energy Crisis — [RAP NEWS 22]
No talk about nuclear? How about Thorium :D
Wait, I thought Obama was still opposed to Keystone?
why so few views? this is one of my favorite Rap News episodes yet!
I appreciate your work soooo fucking much.
Thanks.
You people at Rap News are doing a great job. I share your stuff all the
time. Keep it up, your a force for good!
This is such GARBAGE. This particular video is garbage and nonsense. The
Sun? Sure. Oil IS the Sun. The solar power via solar panels? Good luck
with that.
NUCLEAR is the answer here, but of-course this channel is presenting ‘all
sides’ except for actual answers.
ya guys r killa!!!!!!!!!
fing awesome!
not showing up, ,got any mirror sites?
Unfortunately, there is no solution to the problem of declining energy
resources. The affects can be mitigated but we are entering an age of
decline and we must sober up as a species and prepare for this eventual
certainty: http://www.GreatWavesOfChange.org
Lok at my chanel. All truth about Crimea))
A very good and nuanced analysis. I as a goy I especially resent the idea
that disliking Israeli policy makes me an anti-Semite.
brilliant man!
This is really cutting into my prepping, but I like it.
Unfortunately, there is no solution to the problem of declining energy
resources. The affects can be mitigated but we are entering an age of
decline and we must sober up as a species and prepare for this eventual
certainty: http://www.GreatWavesOfChange.org
ha ha ha ha from Mordor to Izengard ha ha ha ha
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The Energy Crisis – feat. Copernicus [RAP NEWS 22]:
http://youtu.be/Q_xI_8aLjds
Caniabus
the earth has an energy source that’s greater then any other that we could
use today, if you drill to the right depth you could use water to make a
mega steam engines ?
Great work, love it!
By the way that is 草泥马. It is a nickname for alpaca, and its pronunciation
also simply means “fxxx you” in Chinese.
Don’t know if you guys really know that, nevertheless it’s hilarious, lol.
i laughed so hard on china sooo true though