X-Message-Number: 15152 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:26:48 -0500 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Re: manufacturing LN instead of buying References: <> Dave Pizer wrote: > A few years ago, Mark Voelker did a study on liquid nitrogen and found that > we could make it as cheap as we could buy it. So if Alcor were to move to > a new area, they might want to make their own liquid nitrogen. There are > other safety reasons why Alcor may want this capability. > <snip> > > Sometimes some of the best ideas are brought to the forum by rank and file > members, if you have any good ideas on this subject lets discuss them here. > Dave, If you search the cryonet archives you'll find a piece I did on creating liquid nitrogen, the making of dewars that had less venting problems through recooling and recirculation and the availability of off-the-shelf liguid nitrogen making machines and recoolers. There you may find the URL for the company that makes the LN making and recooling machines. They are reasonably priced. James -- Some of our views are spacious some are merely space--RUSH Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15152