Setting it all up was damned expensive: she died at ninety—about 70 years of redaction time multiplied by a typical human metabolic rate and mass landed you with a lot of redaction entropy. Look at the price of energy, convert the Kilowatt hours and it came to a lot of money. She had to set up an on-death remortgage of her home to cover it even with the subsidies.
A typical human consumes maybe 3000 kcal of food per day. Which is about 3.5 kWh. Current price for electricity in the US is about $0.17/kWh. Do all the math, and you get an electricity cost of about $20,000 for a 90-year reversal, if the reversal consumes close to the metabolic energy spent. Which doesn’t seem ridiculously expensive compared to what a human can save in their lifetime (ditto 10x that cost, if you imagine that it takes 10J to reverse the entropy of 1J of metabolism).
You are actually the second person to point this out.
I think that making it 10x the cost by handwaving a machine efficiency of 10% is very reasonable. At a 10% efficiency we are looking at more like $200,000. That is in the territory where a pensioner would not be expected to “just have it” in cash savings, but a remortgage of their home being enough is very reasonable.
That is my post-hoc justification. In the first instance this was a result of me missing a zero.
A typical human consumes maybe 3000 kcal of food per day. Which is about 3.5 kWh. Current price for electricity in the US is about $0.17/kWh. Do all the math, and you get an electricity cost of about $20,000 for a 90-year reversal, if the reversal consumes close to the metabolic energy spent. Which doesn’t seem ridiculously expensive compared to what a human can save in their lifetime (ditto 10x that cost, if you imagine that it takes 10J to reverse the entropy of 1J of metabolism).
Are you imagining a much less efficient process?
You are actually the second person to point this out.
I think that making it 10x the cost by handwaving a machine efficiency of 10% is very reasonable. At a 10% efficiency we are looking at more like $200,000. That is in the territory where a pensioner would not be expected to “just have it” in cash savings, but a remortgage of their home being enough is very reasonable.
That is my post-hoc justification. In the first instance this was a result of me missing a zero.