I was musing just a few days ago that we're heading towards having to resume routes around Cape Horn via clipper ships; turns out I was right to worry

Giant kites that drag cargo ships across oceans go on trial

(Bloomberg) -- Add ships being dragged along by giant kites to the list of things the industry is exploring in its quest to decarbonize.

At the start of next year, the Ville de Bordeaux, a 154-meter-long ship that moves aircraft components for Airbus SE, will unfurl a 500 square meter kite on journeys across the Atlantic Ocean. It will undergo six months of trials and tests before full deployment. While the industry has come up with multiple decarbonization initiatives, it is struggling to keep pace with goals set out under the Paris Agreement on climate. There’s also pressure on shipping lines from large customers who are pressing to make their own supply chains less polluting.

We’re being dragged backwards, and billions of people are going to die; that’s a pleasing prospect to the most rabid of our eco-warriors, but I doubt their flock understands what’s coming.