Pentashagon comments on Dry Ice Cryonics- Preliminary Thoughts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pentashagon 01 October 2015 03:21:00AM 0 points [-]

Tricky part is there aren't any practical scalable chemicals that have a handy phase change near -130'C, (in the same way that liquid nitrogen does at -196'C) so any system to keep patients there would have to be engineered as a custom electrically controlled device, rather than a simple vat of liquid.

Phase changes are also pressure dependent; it would be odd if 1 atm just happened to be optimal for cryonics. Presumably substances have different temperature/pressure curves and there might be a thermal/pressure path that avoids ice crystal formation but ends up below the glass transition temperature.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 October 2015 01:54:52PM 2 points [-]

Phase changes are also pressure dependent; it would be odd if 1 atm just happened to be optimal for cryonics.

1 atm pressure has the advantage of costing nothing and requiring no equipment to maintain.