X-Message-Number: 2106
Date: 14 Apr 93 15:07:32 EDT
From: Mike Darwin <>
Subject: CRYONICS Coldroom Storage

> From: Mike Darwin
> To: Brian Wowk, All
> Re: Cooldown charges

     In a recent posting Brian Wowk states that there is a $7000 
charge at Alcor for use of a cooldown dewar.  Since I do not have a 
CRFT in front of me I am unable to cite chapter and verse, but I 
believe that Brian is mistaking the dewar space charge for the 
cooldown charge.  In other words, the 7K is the fraction of the 
bigfoot dewar which the patient "buys" when s/he is placed into 
suspension: sort of like a condominium charge.  This cost is then 
replaced out of interest on principal over (I think) a 10 or 15 year 
period to allow for "sinking fund" replacement of the equipment at the 
end of its most conservatively estimated working life.

     LN2 Dewars or a cold room: this cost has to be addressed and it 
is not an artifact of cooldown with LN2.  It is a real expense of 
STORAGE costs.

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