Basibiyalo: Recent Episodes
Anish Adhikari
Basibiyalo is an effort to discuss contemporary issues among 7 friends from college with no frills. We are in different parts of the world busy with the day to day monotones of life, and this is a safe space to lay out our opinions, and counter them with some banter here and there. We hope you give us a listen and stick with us on our journey in discussing life and the universe. ~viva la vida ~
Join us in one of our special guest sessions where we have a conversation with Journalist and Writer Arun Budhathoki. We discuss how Nepal is between a rock and a hard place with neighboring giants India and China, along with watchful eyes from the United States that shape our geopolitics.
Arun Dai recently completed his M.Phil in Media and Journalism from the University of New Brunswick in Canada. His articles have appeared in Vice, Asia Times, Digital Trends, SCMP Post, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Strangers Guide, Asia Times, The Huffington Post, Nikkie Asian Review, The Globe and Mail, TRT World, The New Arab, and others. He has also contributed to Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, BBC Radio 4, and Toronto Life as a fixer/reporter. Arun is interested in investigative, narrative, and multimedia journalism.
We talk about EVs, Hydrogen Fuel Vehicles, Alternative Fuels, Nuclear Fusion and its global implications in this special episode of Basibiyalo. For our Expert Guest Segment, we chat with Dr. Utsav Raj Aryal, Fuel Cell Research Scientist from Toyota North America on Fuel Cell as an alternative to battery powered vehicles and broader implications of clean hydrogen as an energy source for the future.
Chapters:
0:00 - Episode Highlights
02:33 - History of EVs
08:53 - Introduction to Dr. Utsav Raj Aryal
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Hydrogen Fuel Cell
12:51 - What is a Fuel Cell?
15:46 - Hydrogen Fueled Vehicles
29:27 - Elon Musk rejects Fuel Cells
34:57 - Cyber Truck
37:01 - Nepal and EVs
43:18 - What happens when we run out of Fossil Fuels?
49:22 - H2 as Aviation Fuel
51:12 - Fuel Cell vs. EVs
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1:04:15 - Nuclear Fusion - Next big thing?
1:11:57 - Energy-Rare Minerals War/Diplomacy
1:19:18 - Tesla's Stock Plunges
1:24:56 - Problems in US?
Are we only following the protocols? Is all of this necessary? Should Ambulances of everything be stopped for a person? Is the Office of the President to blame here?
Join us as we have some random discussions on this in one of our shorter ChiyoCharcho sessions. Let us know what you think and how can we better the system we have in Nepal currently regarding VVIP motorcades.
||This is an impromptu conversation that happened after the episode was recorded. The full episode will be released soon.||
In this episode, we talk about the recent tragic air crash in Nepal and tie it up with problems of air safety in our country. We touch on Rabi Lamichhane and his recent issue with citizenship and also pay tribute our fellow citizen Prem Acharya 'Santosh' while discussing why he had to die.
Please hear us out and let us hear your opinions on how you found it.
In our first episode, we talk about football, what it means to us, the recent Qatar World Cup 2022 - issues with it, which we then tie up by discussing politics back home in Nepal.
Basibiyalo is an effort to discuss contemporary issues among 7 friends from college with no frills. We are in different parts of the world busy with the day to day monotones of life, and this is a safe space to lay out our opinions, and counter them with some banter here and there. We hope you give us a listen and stick with us on our journey in discussing life and the universe.
~viva la vida ~