X-Message-Number: 17602
From: "Brett Bellmore" <>
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #17577 - #17593
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 20:00:56 -0400

From Brett Bellmore

With regards to making our own LN2, there are tradeoffs. At some time down
the road, we presumably are going to start reviving people. If we have
persued a strategy of buying LN2, we will have a trust fund available which
can be turned to that purpose, as it no longer will be required for LN2.

On the other hand, if that money has been invested in LN2 producing
equipment, that equipment will become excess at that time, and presumably
would have to be sold as used or scrap, and at a considerable loss.

Thus, I would say that buying LN2 is probably preferable to making it,
unless making it is so much cheaper than buying it, that the difference can
be invested, and accumulate to provide a comparable sum to be used for
revival.

The same can be said of capital investments in more efficient storage
facilities; All things being equal, a high cash flow solution is preferable
to a high investment in equipment solution, if they net out to the same
initial sum of money per suspendee, because in the former instance, the
funds become available for revival, rather than being irreversably sunk in
capital equipment.

Brett Bellmore

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