lsparrish comments on Cryonics Wants To Be Big - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lsparrish 05 July 2010 07:50AM

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Comment author: twanvl 05 July 2010 03:49:27PM 5 points [-]

Does anyone have some actual numbers on what fraction of the expenses of existing cryonics companies are spent on cooling? That should give an indication on how much can be saved by scaling up.

Comment author: lsparrish 05 July 2010 04:02:32PM 6 points [-]

Here is a table with Alcor costs. Surprisingly, for a Bigfoot dewar the LN2 is less than half the total cost. The other big ones are janitorial work for the space around it and alarm systems.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 06 July 2010 04:30:54PM 1 point [-]

Interesting. Makes me wonder how those would scale. They also sound like they would scale well.