X-Message-Number: 320 From att!garnet.berkeley.edu!quaife Tue May 7 01:53:30 PDT 1991 Date: Tue, 7 May 91 01:53:30 PDT From: Message-Id: <> To: Subject: cryonics mailing list Art Quaife, President Way back when in 1980, TRANS TIME designed and ordered the largest dewar that has ever been used to store human patients. Our King Kong Kapsule has a capacity of about 11 whole-body patients, and we are currently using it to maintain eight patients. Several months ago, John Day and I prepared specifications and ordered a smaller four-patient dewar, the Son of Kong. On May 1 we took delivery of this unit. The manufacturer's tests show that with the dewar 1/3 full, it boils off 9+ liters per day. This figure will increase when the dewar is full, but still promises excellent performance in the vicinity of 3 liters/day/patient with four patients in it. (We might only get three patients into it, depending upon their size). TRANS TIME continues to have the largest capacity in the industry for storage of patients; we have room for about 20 whole-body patients in stainless steel vacuum-insulated dewars, plus room for 3 more on a short-term emergency basis. We bought this new dewar mainly as a backup to insure patient safety. If the vacuum were ever to fail in our large dewar, we have more than enough empty dewar space to transfer all of the patients. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=320