X-Message-Number: 20153 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:01:25 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Answering traccy's question References: <> > > Message #20150 > From: > Subject: Carbon outputs of freeze tanks? > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:38:10 +1000 > > Greetings fellow cryonauts, > > I suspect I'm about to get dragged into a bit of a debate following a post I > sent to another list about the New Scientist comp. > I was confronted with this response : > > "Even if cryonics had a hope in hell of working, one wonders how the > freezers are powered and the carbon output or radioactive waste you > would generate over a deathtime (opposite of lifetime?)." > > Can anyone answer this for me please? Tracy, Since we do not use freezers and instead use thermos bottle like dewers with liquid nitrogen then the extra carbon or nuclear waste output produced, by one's hanging around instead of going to rot, is certainly less than the carbon or nuclear waste output for the activities of maintaining a graveyard or crematory services or outgasing from rot and I would even sugggest most adamantly probably far less than even the lawnmower carbon monoxide output created in cutting the grass over and around a single grave on a per person equivilant basis, not to mention the carbon cost of refining the fuel that is burnt that exhausts said carbon monoxide. Your opponent put forth a strawman argument Tracy. Anticipating their next rebuttal... Not even the production of the liquid nitrogen counts againts us because it is produced as a by product of other industries that would not simply cease to exist if we alone no longer purchased that excess product. James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ While there follow the links to photos of me and some of my artwork and a radio interview on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality". A RELIGION I actually recommend: http://uk.geocities.com/venturist2001/index.html A FAVORITE quote: Last lines of the first Star Trek the Next Generation movie. Capt. Picard: "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived, after all Number One, we're only mortal." Will Ryker: "Speak for yourself captain, I intend to live forever!" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20153