I think this is a job for Diesel's. MY VW passat does better than 54.5US gallons when in the hwy. My friend has a ford fiesta diesel that gets even better mileage around 70mpg (US gallons). And I am sure a diesel hybrid should be even better. I can't go back to driving gasoline autos. The torque in a diesel vehicle is just awesome. Trident is coming out with a diesel sports car that will do 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds and a fuel economy of 57.4mpg and that car's engine is built by GM.

The computer part is easy I would worry more about your dad giving out his SS. My mom got her SS stolen and we put a credit freeze on her file. I had to pay $10 each credit reporting agency but that stop the thiefs from getting too many credit cards. They did manage to get a Macy's CC.

in 2007 NYC finished the transition to AC http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/11/16/225213/the-last-dc-power-grid-shut-down-in-nyc

I recommend you FPV and I find it more fun than the drone. There are many ready to fly solutions for cheap. Here is the link to the proper forums RcGroups http://youtu.be/b7e2IQ_Ft3c

VNC work different than X. With VNC you have to display the whole desktop, and with the xserver you have the choice of only displaying the app you need to run. I think windows just added this feature in their windows 2008 server and call it remote app. And I love this I got old computers that can't run some programs so I just made a shorcut to just run the one app via xserver, and you can't even tell the difference since to the client it feels like a local program.

Is like getting lots of free apps at once. I think lots of people don't know that you can just display the one application that you need to run a not the whole screen.

There was quantum levitation showed at the Colbert report once. Jump to the 4:38 mark

They should just build that stuff into the roads so we can drive our cars like bumper cars. Charge while you drive.

if you want to run old programs all you need to grab everysingle library that program depends on. I have managed to run old applications using portablelinuxapps There was also a story here in slashdot of another program that allowed you to grab all the dependencies of an old program to run in modern distributions but I couldn't find the story.

I think the videos did just that. I just finish watching and the videos do not mention the name of any city or any person's name the videos could be based anywhere.

yo do not even need to roll your own. Just use Ampache, and host it yourself. There are Android and boxee clients. I no longer use satellite radio since I stream everything to my phone for long drives..

Ampache, I had my music hosted in the cloud by myself and streaming to my phone before all the big companies were doing it thanks to AMPACHE . My friends have access to it and they help with the rating of music. It keeps my playlist fresh.

There are many ways of producing hydrogen, and probably many more ways that we haven't figure out. A lot of times is a byproduct of some other process. Do you remember the blow up in the japanese nuclear reactors? those happen because of hydrogen build up, and I think using nuclear power to produce hydrogen is actually very green. I used to work for Arco(BP) and during the refining process we used to produce way too much hydrogen and we didn't have where to store or no one to sell it to so we would just burn it, and we would do this almost 24/7. And right now most of the hydrogen in the USA is produced by steam reforming of natural gas