Indeed. Schrems III cannot come too soon, and maybe this time it will stick.

Hopes these white coats show up at the White House real soon.

TIL giraffes need detecting before they get too close.

Yet another reason to rejoin the EU.

Nice. It would be good to put the distro name beneath each logo, for people who don’t recognise the logos.

The article does not mention mountains. Mountains are often more suited to trains than planes, cf. Switzerland.

The article does quote Anna Hughes of Flight Free UK, who echoes my sentiments: “The reality of decarbonising travel will inevitably be travelling a lot less, investing heavily in rail, and only then electrifying the flights that remain.”

France’s short-haul flight ban is excellent and more countries should adopt it.

As for “counterpoint”, no-one here disagrees with decarbonising island routes rail can’t serve. Still, I’d favour sail or electric fast ferries over aircraft where possible.

This is by David Revoy, who has started getting wrongly accused of using AI for his art

I’m all in favour of decarbonisation.

Still, the physics mean aviation will never be as energy-efficient as high-speed rail.

Governments and others should overwhelmingly invest in the latter. It has higher RoI.

For a beautiful moment after reading the headline, I thought this must be an uplifting piece about European weather systems.

Then reality set in 🫠

Thanks! I didn’t know they were normally made of composites.

Looks like there are some ways (1, 2) to reuse/recycle the latter, but I agree wood would be better for this.

Aren’t turbine blades usually aluminium? How is wood more “recyclable” than that?

Great to see Europe leading the way here. If other jurisdictions pass similarly responsible legislation, then those jurisdictions will gain similar benefits.

The article has an interesting passage about how Irish aluminium is currently being sold to Russia for weapons, and the EU is (rightly) trying to stop this.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu, what’s up with this? It doesn’t seem in any way justifiable.