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.
THANKS
To: Dave Rawlinson for the many conversations about EROEI graphs, peak oil and economic recession! Tim Parish for photography and behind the scenes shootage. Lucy Cahill and Damian Tapley for invaluable shoot assistance.
Costumes and wigs styled and provided by the awesome people down at Rose Chong rosechong.com/
Keystone XL animation: youtube.com
Creative Commons attributions for sound effects: jesabat (steam), Tomlija (water gushing), Roper1911 (shipboard-railgun), Vartioh (sci-fi impacts effects)
Thanks to Koolfy from nurpa.be for creating the sync’d English captions for all our episodes, available on the multilingual version (insert url here)
All acting by Hugo, Giordano & Ming
All vox (except Tony Abbott) by Hugo
Video and music editing by Giordano
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i laughed so hard on china sooo true though
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.
The Energy Crisis – feat. Copernicus [RAP NEWS 22]:
http://youtu.be/Q_xI_8aLjds
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 ?
Caniabus
Juice News – The Energy Crisis®
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… Read more »
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.
THESE GUYS ARE GREAT…. CHECK THEM OUT 🙂
MUCH LOVE
ha ha ha ha from Mordor to Izengard ha ha ha ha
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
This is really cutting into my prepping, but I like it.
brilliant man!
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.
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
not showing up, ,got any mirror sites?
fing awesome!
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.
Bringing Nicolaus Copernicus on the show was just genious!
This is an entertaining way to look at the nergy crisis
ya guys r killa!!!!!!!!!
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.
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!
I appreciate your work soooo fucking much.
Thanks.
Love your work guys
THORIUM. NO MENTION OF THORIUM, THIS NEEDS TO BE AMENDED. UPVOTE IF YOU
AGREE>>>
Brilliant as always!
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).
Word
why so few views? this is one of my favorite Rap News episodes yet!
Wait, I thought Obama was still opposed to Keystone?
No talk about nuclear? How about Thorium 😀
water is energy. 322 The Energy Crisis — [RAP NEWS 22]
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.
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.
I lost it at Wai So Dim
Note that Copernicus never revealed his stuff while alive they found it when he was dead. A better person would be Giordano Bruno.
I love your channel but this video knocked you guys down a peg in my book