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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

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