Well as this plane appears to be built and flown in France, its electricity came from nuclear reactors. Not necessarily "green" energy but at least no CO2 was emitted producing it.

Well in some contries it is easier - in Iceland over 90% of the electricity generation capacity is hydro so that would be a pretty good bet (the rest is geothermal and the odd diesel powered emergency generator thrown into the mix). One enterprising farmer even built a wind generator but that blew down in a storm after about a week - said he'd try it again, though.

I don't believe there is any graphene in the dreamliner, lots of carbon fibre reinforced plastic though - the plastic part mostly being different epoxies

Actually lift also causes drag, so called induced drag; Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_drag

The laws af physics are still the same now as they were in the 70s, dramatic improvements over Concorde (which was developed in the 60s anyway) are highly unlikely even with current technology. Research on the subject has also not been particularly active in recent years.

Is that a African or a European missile?

And the aircraft that landed in the Hudson river was ... an Airbus A320. Guided there by its pilot via the fully functioning Fly By Wire system.

1) A DC8 would be no better in turbulence than an A330. The regulations have not changed siginficantly in decades and no commercial aeroplane is allowed to fly (in the west) without fulfilling FAR / JAR 25. What has changed is a quantum leap in our capability to simulate the response of the structure to the applied loads and design the structure accordingly. 2) Stick shake when the plane is approaching stall has been included in any FBW aircraft for years. Artificial weighting to indicate the level of forces on the controls has been discussed but not used as far as I know. The inertia involved causes the response of the aircraft to be quite slow - the pilot therefore gives the aircraft a command with the stick and then returns the stick to its centred position while the aircraft performes the requested manoeuvre. Requiring the pilot to hold onto the stick fighting the artificial feedback the whole time would seem to be counterproductive.

It doesn't take as long to service one large aeroplane as two smaller ones. The critical path comprises the loading/unloading of passengers and of fuel (these can not legally be performed in parallel). With several gangways and an efficient refuelling system this can be performed more quickly for one large aircraft that only has to be linked up to the loading/unloading "mechanisms" once, than for two small ones that are processes one after the other.