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International Energy Agency Conventional geothermal energy resources remain limited to a handful of countries But new technologies are enabling projects to go deeper underground, making geothermal a potential option for almost all countries if they put the right policies in place & streamline permitting

FT Investigation: A Scottish-Lebanese dynasty. A sheikh scorned. A German arms deal. A £50mn penthouse. The former King of Spain. One of London’s hottest tech investors. Intrigued? Hope you enjoy What led to the fall of the house of El Husseiny on.ft.com/4ixRCnM via @ft

Niels Troost and his colleague are the only traders sanctioned for Russian oil. Was he a major player in Putin’s war machine, or duped by a fake CIA operative who stole his money and then set out to destroy his reputation….this is an incredible tale 1/? on.ft.com/4iPDLJZ

This week's FT Weekend Magazine cover is a truly wild story by Tom Wilson of how one of the only two Europeans sanctioned for trading Russian oil says he was tricked into the whole thing by a man posing to be a CIA agent ft.com/content/eb3b3e…

It's lunchtime. Wish I was in Shanghai... youtube.com/watch?v=oztE6t…

Record-breaking coal demand keeps defying expectation 🌎❤️🪨 📈 Global coal consumption will set fresh records every year through at least 2027, IEA data shows, overturning a previous estimate that it peaked last year ⚡ Power grids are addicted to coal bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Trump threatens tariffs if the EU doesn't buy more US oil and gas 🇺🇸🇪🇺🚨 ⚠️ The President-elect said he told the EU they must "make up their tremendous deficit" with large scale purchases of American fuel 🚢 The US is the world's top LNG exporter, and the biggest oil producer

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Bottles of Barolo, Barbaresco and Alba evoke timeless Italian wine-making tradition. In reality, Langhe region wineries now rely on undocumented migrant workers toiling in poor conditions to produce their prized wines. ft.com/content/8dba3c… via @ft #italy

A majority of Japanese support either expanding nuclear power or keeping at current levels 🇯🇵☢️ NHK poll about nuclear power: 👉 21% say should rise 👉 30% say should stay at current level 👉31% say should be reduced 👉 8% say should be zero www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2025…

Q: What sources of energy do you want to grow? - Senator Cortez Masto A: "All sources" -- Chris Wright (He enumerates first oil and gas, and then goes into coal, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and geothermal. The senator complaints he didn't mention solar, but she misheard him)

While the world has been hunting for clues about the mysterious DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, I hopped on a plane down to Guangdong to visit the village where he grew up. Liang returned to Mililing 米历岭村 for the Lunar New Year celebration with his family this week.

These two paragraphs in George Parker’s long read today on the new UK ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, are particularly delicious on.ft.com/3WOpELA

BP is winning the SEO game on Google News…

Elliott hedges its enormous bet on BP with a €670mn short on TotalEnergies. Great scoop from Costas Mourselas and Ian Johnston on.ft.com/41nXwjy

When you work for somewhere so long that you become new again Rob Crilly

In Europe, even the machine guns are handcrafted by artisans... on.ft.com/4lwfcmF

Elliott wants BP to increase its cash flow to $20bn a year, and has upped its stake past the 5% disclosure threshold. Costas Mourselas Oliver Barnes ft.com/content/5c3e68…

SPAIN’s cascading power failure - some early analysis by @ft ft.com/content/e922cd…