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High Cost and Emissions of Middle-Mile Air Freight

Logistics companies and businesses requiring efficient transport for goods to remote or rural areas struggle with the high cost and CO2 emissions of traditional small planes. They need a more economical and environmentally friendly solution for warehouse-to-warehouse or post office-to-post office delivery.

Legacy stack in place

Legacy ERP + Excel Workaround

Times mentioned
1
Estimated market
Large (multi-billion)
Source signals
6

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  • GitHub Issues
    Aug 24, 2026

    [Feature]: Whole-Life Embodied Carbon Engine for Home Renovation (EN 15978 A1-A5 / B4 / C)

    # ✨ Feature Request ## 📝 Description `carbon_payback.py` and the home energy features tell a user how much operational carbon a retrofit saves. None of them count what the retrofit **costs to build**. Insulation, triple glazing, a heat pump, a new floor slab — all of it carries upfront manufacturing and installation……

  • Hacker News
    Aug 23, 2026

    Launch HN: Pelm (YC W22) – Plaid for Utilities

    Hi HN, Drew and Edmund from Pelm here ( ). We are building an API that allows developers to access energy data, such as electricity usage or billing data, from utilities. Currently, if you want to build an application on top of energy data, you have to build integrations with utilities across the country. Not only is……

  • GitHub Issues
    Sep 1, 2026

    Add checks for conservation of CO₂

    # A little recap of the issue Previously we have had the issue that some CO2 was wrongly attributed to another technology (which should not emit any CO2). So, this issue is to discuss about creating some guardrails for message-ix during build. The idea is to make sure that the CO2 is conserved across the solution (or……

  • GitHub Issues
    Aug 30, 2026

    [Feature]: Peer effect estimation and the reflection problem — the community features cannot tell influence from sorting

    # ✨ Feature Request ## 📝 Description The community half of this app is built on a causal claim it never tests: that being around greener people makes you greener. `src/community/block_leaderboard.py`, `src/community/pledge_leaderboard.py`, `src/community/community_challenges.py` and `src/community/eco_social.py` all……

  • GitHub Issues
    Aug 27, 2026

    Add index decomposition analysis so a footprint change can be attributed to its actual causes

    # ✨ Feature Request ## 📝 Description This app can tell a user their footprint went from 6,400 kg to 5,700 kg. It cannot tell them **why**, and the difference between the available explanations is the difference between useful feedback and flattery. Between those two numbers sit at least four independent movements:……

  • GitHub Issues
    Aug 25, 2026

    Ship Kyuva as a local-first Apple teleprompter suite

    ## Outcome Ship Kyuva as a trustworthy local-first Apple teleprompter suite: a focused macOS release first, followed by an iPhone app and an Apple Watch companion. Keep scripts private by default and make every capture, voice, remote, and Store claim provable. ## Confirmed baseline — 2026-08-24 - Canonical source:……

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