X-Message-Number: 24281 From: Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:37:01 EDT Subject: More on Cryostats & Dewars Ben, You posted as follows yesterday with the following hyperlink: "I recently posted a report concerning the status of the Cryonics Institute Cryostats on the CI website, which may be of interest to the cryonics community at large: http://www.cryonics.org/cryostats.html That was some interesting reading for me, and answered a few questions I've had for some time about cryostats & dewars in general, and CI's setup in particular. Thanks for writing that up and pointing it out. However, I noticed you did not mention CI's smaller "pet dewar(s)" purchased from one of the few manufacturers of this equipment in the country. As you and Robert Ettinger will remember, I operated a 90 liter dewar (for my little buddy, Diesel, now in CI's care: http://boardwatch.org/david& diesel.jpg ) several years ago that I had gotten secondhand from Duke University. I've decided to donate it to CI and have it delivered to Detroit in the next few weeks for whatever use you might find for it including perhaps as backup for the DNA sample storage or for "pet patients," or as "standby equipment" for onsite dry ice storage, etc. I will email or telephone you and Andy before shipping it. I happen to be reading the book "Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World" by Nick Lane and ran across some trivia on dewars that may be of interest to a few regarding the "invention" and the naming of these oversized thermoses. I scanned pages 120 and 121. Checkout the second full paragraph from the first page: http://boardwatch.org/Oxygen.jpg The book is good and is applicable to cryonics in some respects. More about it (in the form of reviews) can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198508034/qid=1087791243/sr=ka-2/ref=pd_ka_2/103-7040078-9749408#product-details Regards, David C. Johnson Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24281