Rap News: The Energy Crisis!
RAP NEWS. 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 troll some – 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
- 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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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!
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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.