French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.

The measure is part of a broader climate bill that aims to cut French carbon emissions by 40% in 2030 from 1990 levels, though activists accuse President Emmanuel Macron of watering down earlier promises in the draft legislation.

“We know that aviation is a contributor of carbon dioxide and that because of climate change we must reduce emissions,” she told Europe 1 radio. “Equally, we must support our companies and not let them fall by the wayside.”

Air traffic may not return to pre-crisis levels before 2024.

Just wait a little and they will also remotely limit your new electric cars. I already hear talks about it from inside Apple (as company will be part of big alliance who will be responsible for subscription model on your car and much more).

The Stiftung Warentest tested various washing machines from different manufacturers in 2013.

The result: none of the machines tested reached 60 ° C in the 60-degree eco programs. One machine even reached only 35.4 instead of 60 degrees Celsius.

What most consumers do not know: The legislature only stipulates that the eco programs must achieve a certain washing effect, but not the temperature indicated on the machine. Manufacturers use this "gap" and sometimes drastically lower the temperature of their eco programs in order to save energy. In conjunction with a longer running time, the required washing performance is still achieved and the machine is given a high energy efficiency class.

https://www.daserste.de/information/ratgeber-service/haushaltscheck/03112014-haushalts-check-2-welche-waschtemperatur-100.html

I am not fan of all this adaptations and overall brightness, but cooling and design are good.

Still leds used are cheap 95 CRI or even lower ones, not top quality sun light spectrum as far as I know.

In Europe, voices are louder and louder in defense of nuclear power plants, which have become fashionable to close in the past decade.

Group of 46 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 18 countries wrote a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, calling for nuclear energy to be included in the EU's list of green investment categories. Eliminating nuclear power, they said, would help implement a strategy that is “clearly inadequate” for decarbonizing the region's economy.

The letter argues that, to please several Member States, the Commission is making decisions that interfere with the normal development of nuclear power. Among other things, this leads to false media coverage of the harm of nuclear energy to human health. There are scientifically proven justifications for the safety of nuclear power at all stages of production for the environment and human health. False claims in the media not only interfere with this type of energy generation, but also threaten the entire decarbonization program of Europe.

Nice thing.