{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To","title":"The Insurance Industry That Quietly Runs Energy","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/473f0ed6\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2637,"description":"Growing up in New Zealand somehow turned into mud logging the Aussie desert, rigging up deepwater tech in the Gulf of Mexico, geosteering off Scotland, helping figure out nuclear waste storage in Swiss clay, and finally landing in subsurface risk and insurance where “nothing moves without coverage” starts to make way more sense. Jacob asks the dumb questions, Rodney Garrard from Arch Insurance International answers with real world stories, and the conversation ends on a pretty grounded idea: energy realism beats wishful thinking.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n\n0:00 Zurich check in + quick disclaimer\n01:10 Rodney’s origin story in New Zealand geology\n03:55 Mud logging in the Cooper Basin desert days\n08:00 Houston and early deepwater Gulf of Mexico work\n10:30 UK offshore, Rosebank, and geosteering life\n14:20 Rotations, family life, and Norway years\n17:00 Switzerland nuclear waste storage in clay, granite, salt\n24:00 Pivot into insurance and subsurface risk work\n27:00 What “energy insurance” actually does, CCS examples\n37:10 Europe’s energy realism and the grid wake up call\n40:50 Writing, energy density, and “Energy Transition 2.0”\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_io\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io\nhttps://www.facebook.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.instagram.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_io\nhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8F_7R-SE-nw_rUP_p1-vdDVWboJt_kcEhdbgrgTEL7E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYjY2/Yjk4MWJiZWFlYmVl/ZGIxYjkxYTdiYTdi/ZGUwMy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}