Good point. Should be less of an issue during a housefire or other disaster as well.

Why would someone use different batteries for a home than they would at a business? Homes burn power 24/7, just on a smaller scale. And homeowners in areas that are prone to blackouts/brownouts want uptime just as badly as any business. Plus homeowners that agree to use such batteries can work with utilities to charge during low utilization periods (ala PowerWall) to help with load balancing. Sodium-Ion is more appropriate for routine charge/discharge cycles over the longterm.

Gotta wonder how the wasp lobby feels about that. Maybe they want to be radioactive!

Knew some ignorant AC would assume that anyone that dares disagree with them even a teenie tiny bit is MAGAT.

Tariffs are (presumably) already in place on plenty of polysilicon and finished panels since most of both come from China these days. If you want to go down that road, it only makes your initial comment look even more-idiotic if you're going to regard these as taxes on solar/wind since the tariffs are already in place. Though who knows where they'll be next week or next month (or even next year).

But hey don't stop moving goalposts if it makes you feel better.

No, they really couldn't.

Yeah, I'm aware of such products. Sodium-Ion promises to make storage batteries cheaper and more-reliable.

Sodium-Ion should be cheaper and have a longer lifespan.

LOL at Republicans in Congress raising taxes on anyone. He'd lose a lot of support (conditionally) from his Reps and Senators in Texas, for example.

It would be nice for homeowners to have batteries like these (albeit on a smaller scale) to cope with power outages and prevent brownout even when still reliant on grid power.

People can still build out wind and solar if they want. They might receive fewer subsidies.

Now all the rights holders groups have to do is use this new law to declare the alleged violator to be a pirate site to force American ISPs to block them.

I asked a fairly simple question, best answered by someone with experience dealing with HIPAA requirements. Since third parties are being entrusted with patient data as a part of this proposed program (authorized by whom exactly, I don't know), HIPAA would apply unless the law has exceptions. Normally patient data must be signed over by the patient each time it is handed to a new party. The law is designed to prevent sharing of patient data unless the patient actively participates in each transfer. Any third party that participates in this sharing of data could run afoul of HIPAA, and the executive branch which seems to be promoting this program would be unable to save them from lawsuits or penalties/fines levied by other branches of government.

People want to push the "Trump bad" narrative, but the fact remains that his administration can't and won't stop courts from beating up companies from sharing medical data with only one authorization. The most Trump could do is issue pardons or commutations for those facing criminal penalties (assuming anyone can even be charged criminally for HIPAA violations).

Apparently that isn't a option.

No, that won't happen. Now you're just being silly.

Not really. Most mosquitoes are harmless to humans. Targeting those responsible for the spread of disease would have little, if any effect on the food chain.