Or burn it, pretty much the same. Anything furthering bitcoin going to result in much more electricity use, so flaring might be preferable environmentally. Mic

Or burn it, pretty much the same. Anything furthering bitcoin going to result in much more electricity use, so flaring might be preferable environmentally. Microgenerators or fuel cells (both complicated by source stream being unscrubbed) would be better. If grid tie is the issue, would be more interesting and productive to advance trapped energy source storage methods, either thermal/kinetic, hydrogen separation (of source stream or splitting local water), or other chemical. One thing is that you don't generally have a bunch of completely isolated wells - usually clustered smaller platforms or a giant one with tie-backs.. point being they share infra, though, so you can probably have a bunch of wells in the same field sharing some energy storage infrastructure. What the net energy saves would be is a great question.