The areas in which most farming is done, i.e. out in the sticks, also have the least amount of gray water due to the low population density. The only way this idea would work was if infrastructure was built to not only partially treat the sewage and runoff from the cities, but then transport it possibly hundreds of miles to where it's most needed for agriculture.

I second the recommendation for the Mt Wilson Observatory. It's a nice mountain drive, and the observatory grounds are open to the public on weekends (if not the entire week, check their web site). They have a nice little museum with lots of interesting stuff from the golden age of astronomy, you can take look at the 100 inch telescope, complete with the chair that Edwin Hubble spent many a night sitting in while peering at the universe, plus they have unique structures like their solar telescopes.

Up until about 6 months ago, I was paying ~$50 per month for cable internet and about $80 per month for DirectTV. I had been a DirectTV subscriber for 10 to 12 years (before that cable TV), and during that time our family watched a lot of TV. About two years ago I noticed that everyone was watching less and less TV, and spending more time on YouTube, etc. At some point, when I asked everyone, it turned out that nobody had watched any actual TV for at least 4 months. I dropped direct TV the next day. Mind you I have two sons, 17 and 20, who spends hours a day watching netflix, playing video games, chatting online, etc. The only thing the TV gets used for now is as a display device for the XBox.

Some of us have to actually use computers to, you know, make a living. We don't want or need yet more fluffy widgets to keep us from getting our work done. For every improved driver in Windows 7, there were at least two annoyances that were added to the mix. Transparent overlays?... useless. God-awful search tool that doesn't even recognize a tilde (~) character?...even worse than useless. Completely arbitrary user interface when trying to copy files (probably depending on which serf wrote that piece of code), absolutely infuriating. Hey, Microsoft, how about you try making your OS better, rather than just putting more lipstick on the pig that is Vista.

Why the hostility? These stories appear here, and elsewhere on the Internet, pretty regularly... "Drive X miles after only charging your car for Y minutes", etc. Without knowing the energy efficiency, the cost of the batteries, their expected lifetime, etc., these claims are completely worthless. They're written the way they are for a reason, to make those that aren't EE's (i.e. the general public) believe that this really is a magic bullet, and to hopefully invest in a probably-bogus company that will never actually produce anything.

So it's only nerds that spend the time to understand how anything actually works, while you Real Americans can't bothered with such unnecessary details. No wonder our country is going down the shit hole, too many people think just like you.

When Michael O'Leary starts flying on scheduled, commercial flights with no co-pilot, I'll start doing the same. In the meantime, I'll be sure to avoid Ryanair at all costs, since they sure don't seem to be very concerned with my well being.