X-Message-Number: 27242
From: "Jordan Sparks" <>
Subject: cost of self sufficient cryonics
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:22:54 -0700

>There are many different economic formulas... the DIY economic formula is
so radically different
All current cryonics organizations already use non profit status and donated
labor.  You were talking about reducing the cost further.  You can't use a
DIY strategy because that is already factored into the current cost.
 
>I can make a solar oven...for pennies or even for nothing at all. It will
bake bread.
Unfortunately, you can't make an electrical generator for pennies. Can you?
 
>the heat loss per patient would be srikingly lower
But LN2 is not one of the major expenses of running a cryonics organization.
Not even close.
 
>if your cryogenic storage chamber is underground, sizable...
>[cost] lower than for storage in individual dewars.
But building the cryogenic storage chamber IS a significant expense in
cryonics organizations.  And your storage chamber sounds way more expensive
than the ones being used now.
 
I don't think my skepticism was premature.  This is not a new suggestion.
However, feel free to prove me wrong.  I would love to see someone give it a
shot.  I'm just having trouble visualizing how you're going to:
1. dig a giant hole in the desert
2. construct a chamber at low cost. Don't forget about the expensive
stairwell/elevator.
3. build a reliable solar collector at low cost
4. obtain an electrical steam generator at low cost
5. obtain an LN2 generator at low cost
6. obtain/maintain a bank of batteries to run the lights, etc.
7. Keep all this equipment running.  How do you clean all those mirrors, for
instance?
8 What about all the other expensive equipment, like a perfusion system?
The chamber and LN2 is just the tip of the expense iceburg.
 
Jordan Sparks
 


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