Why AI and Oil Are Fighting Over the Same Turbines

Micro turbines hitting 83% efficiency could replace flares and turn stranded wells into tiny neighborhood power plants. Mark Ronkin of Grid Energy Solutions came down from Edmonton to talk with Jacob and guest host Britt Breaux about jumping from five years in the Canadian Army to wireline to running his own MWD shop, then stumbling into the tech at a gas show in Milan. Plus getting sick next to a flare, the oilfield marketing problem in eastern Canada, and why a 9 to 5 and entrepreneurship can coexist.

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0:00 Intro and the FDE model at Collide

5:46 Mark's path through the Canadian Army

9:25 Oil and gas as a polarizing industry across Canada

13:19 Louisiana refineries, Cancer Alley, and Alberta boomtowns

19:08 Living downstream of a flare

21:18 Military to wireline to MWD