Elizabeth Warren on Deficit and Taxes

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Global Green USA's Star-Studded Video About The Rising Tides Of Climate Change

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How the Affordable Care Act iis working for Young Adults

By Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services

We know that young adults are the age group most likely to be uninsured and before health reform was enacted, many young Americans lost their health insurance when they left home or graduated from school. This meant that your sons or daughters – who might be college students or in their first job  – were often forced to choose between paying their rent or maintaining their health insurance. A policy in the Affordable Care Act changes this, by allowing young adults to be on their parents’ plan until age 26.

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MicroPlace Makes It Easy To Invest In--And Make Money From--Organizations Doing Good

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Powering A City With Its Subways And Massive Spinning Wheels

Every time a train starts and stops, it draws or dissipates several megawatts of energy, enough to power more than a thousand homes. This happens thousands of time per day, every day, in commuter rail systems across the country. In fact, peak demand from New York's rail system could power Birmingham, Alabama.

A more efficient system would hand off power from braking trains to those leaving the station. Modern trains run their electric motors in reverse to slow down then release the energy as heat or into a grid ill equipped to absorb the surge. Energy storage could eliminate the problem.

Flywheels, an old technology finding ever more modern applications, may be that storage solution. Large spinning discs, held in frictionless magnetic bearings spinning at 20,000 to 50,000 revolutions per minute, are able to store energy, and send it back within seconds.

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