X-Message-Number: 1962 From: Subject: CRYONICS Costs Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 01:26:58 PST March 14, 1993 To Cryonet >From Steve Bridge, President Alcor Life Extension Foundation In reply to Brian Wowk's Message: #1951 - Cold Storage (he was responding to a question by Charles Platt). > 10$ per square foot per year? We better not store patients in >New York! The Cost of Cryonics appendix in Alcor's blue book budgets >$0.45 (45 cents) per square foot per year. Actually, Brian, that number from Alcor's book appears to be an error. That was an estimate *per month* for average commercial rental space. Mike Darwin forgot to multiply by 12 for the neuropatients. 45 cents times 12 = $5.40 per sqare foot per year. We are charged "friendly" rents here at Alcor by Symbex (the limited partnership which actually owns the building), so we are only paying about $1.84 per sq. ft. per year. Michael Riskin and I are currently updating the numbers from "The Cost of Cryonics" section and have found some other errors. In any case, don't take them as gospel. I'll be publishing something on the corrected numbers when they are complete. > As to my recommendations for outrageously thick insulation, they >were based on an LN2 cost of 10 cents per liter. Alcor's blue book >actually quotes 25 cents per liter. If this figure is closer to the >mark, then as much as 3 meters (!!!) of insulation is indicated >(which I knew even fewer people would take seriously). Even worse, Brian. We're currently paying at least 33 cents per liter. (The calculation on this is tricky, since you have to count sales tax, delivery and other charges to figure the real cost. And the gas company charges us per cubic *foot* of nitrogen *gas.* So you have to do conversions from gas to liquid and from English to metric. Fortunately Hugh Hixon helped me out with this.) Better find a MUCH more efficient insulator. Steve Bridge Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1962