X-Message-Number: 2068
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 14:05:05 CDT
From: Brian Wowk <>
Subject: CRYONICS Thermal Ballast

Perry Metzger:
 
> Assuming one built one's units with dual mechanical cooling units,
> had backup power, and had enough thermal balast to keep the units
> safely at temperature for half a day during catastrophic failures,
> you should be fine...
 
        Rather than half a day, I would prefer at least *one week*
worth of thermal ballast.  One of my tenets in this discussion is
that a -130'C system can be built that is at least as safe as
our current system. 
 
                                                --- Brian Wowk

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