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Subject: CRYONICS Existing Dewars in the Cold Room
From:  (Charles Platt)
Date: Tue, 11 May 93 12:11:01 EDT

May 11, 1993 
 
Mark Voelker's idea of putting existing dewars in the 
projected cold room is ingenious, since it helps to justify 
the use of the Patient Care Fund to build the room, and 
promises greater storage efficiency for the patients in the 
dewars. 
 
However, there are two big snags. 
 
1. As I understand it, storage space in the cold room would 
be about six to seven feet high. A bigfoot dewar is much 
taller than that. There would not be room for it. 
 
2. Under Mark's plan, storage efficiency is only increased if 
you ignore either the cost of the dewar, or the cost of the 
space that it occupies in the cold room. By putting a dewar 
into the cold room, you are really paying to insulate those 
patients twice over. This cannot be cost-effective. Also, the 
economies of the cold room depend partly on greater density 
of patient storage. Dewar(s) in the cold room would negate 
some of this gain. 
 
Having said that I will add that it seems much more plausible 
to me to store neuro patients in the cold room, in their 
neuro cans. Even so, I still feel an instinctive aversion to 
the idea of using the Patient Care Fund to pay for cold room 
construction. The current patients DO NOT NEED that room. 
Therefore, their money should not be used to pay for it. 
 
--Charles Platt 

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