X-Message-Number: 26097 From: Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:39:52 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #26084 other countries From John deRivaz: > Re: Are there countries other than the USA for long term storage ? > > The answer is "no". Interest in cryonics around the world is still too > diffuse to raise the substantial funds that would be needed. There would > need to be many wealthy people in the same town or at least same county (not > country) to make this possible. The UK has the most cryonicists outside of > North America and it is nowhere near achieving this, though some have tried. > The inflation of property prices in relation to salaries, and taxes and > regulations on businesses, make the situation far harder now than it was > some decades ago when the existing cryonics service providers first > appeared. [In the UK at least, it used to be possible to purchase a > residence for three years average salary. Now it is seven. Similar inflation > relates to business premises. Relating costs to salaries is a much better > guide than looking at money figures.] > What is the minimum surface for a storrage facility? I think a solution would be to build cryostats and do the training in France where there is a facility ready to use and limit the UK to a simple garage sized site. When there will be more money, a larger facility could be built. Nobody has a 50 sq. meter backyard surface for a prefabricated shelter? Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26097