X-Message-Number: 2025 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:28:47 CST From: Brian Wowk <> Subject: CRYONICS Underground Vault The Cold Room should be built in a 7m x 7m x 5m deep pit below ground level. The top of the access cubes would be covered with removable fire-resistant flooring planels flush with the surrounding floor surface. You could even store things on this overlying area if you don't mind moving them around from time to time. Does anyone know how much it would cost to build a pit of these dimensions with a reinforced concrete floor and walls? In any case, this cost should not be considered in making comparisons between the Cold Room and our existing storage system. Lack of vault protection for whole-body patients has been a deficiency at Alcor for many years and needs to be remedied anyway. This is the perfect chance to do it. (Kill two birds with one stone, as it were.) I also suggest that once this room has been thoroughly tested and commissioned into service that the existing whole-body dewars (and perhaps neuro vaults as well) be taken offline. This will save floor space and operating costs. Will there be any harm in moving patients stored at -196'C to a -130'C environment? --- Brian Wowk Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2025