Can we grow Biogasoline, Biodiesel, Compost, Protein and PV grade silicon?

Hi PDX Biodiesel coop,
I am not quite this inteligent, this is part of an
email from a group on yahoo.(associated with
www.fossilfreedom.com).
Shody

Can high Purity Solar Grade Polysilicon Be Co-produced
as a By-
Product of "Diatomic Energy" Algal Biomass Biogasoline
and BioDiesel 
Production?

As some members may know, I have been actively
developing methods to 
cultivate, certain high oil content diatoms, to make
"Diatomic Energy" from algal biomass derived
biogasiolines, and BioDiesels. This serendipitous
ALT/Energy quest began, when Mother Nature decided to
"foam" The Huge James River in Richmond VA in the
summer of 2006.

SEE:
http://www.fossilfr eedom.com/ summer.html
and:
www.biodieselnow. com/forums/ thread/32909. aspx

As a result of that quest, I now have a diatom growing
in 
captivity, that makes oils suitable for biodeisel
production, and 
sugars and starches, suitable for biological
fermentation into 
ethanol, acetone and butanols. 
Butanols are one excellent form of non-ethanol
biogasoline (among 
many), which are a direct replacement for petroleum
gasoline with 
almost no pollution or toxicity. 
Also biogasolines, and biodiesels, are net carbon
neutral, and do not cause global warming. 

Many researchers, have been looking at algae, as a
petroleum energy 
replacement. 
Despite what you may have learned in school wrong, no
dinosaur ever contributed a single BTU of energy
content to any petroleum anywhere! 
Dinosaurs, as well as mammals, and humans, are net
energy consumers. 
They do not photosynthesize, and therefore do not trap
solar energy 
and store it.
Plants do that by photosynthesis.
The energy density of petroleum originally came eons
ago, from 
photosynthesis of plants alone!
Most of the petroleum energy ever produced, was
created by the 
decaying corpses of photosynthetic plant algae,
sinking to the bottom of the sea, and getting trapped
in other sediment to form oil layers,in sedimentary
rock basins.
Replacing all petroleum, with energy derived from
algal-culture, is 
therefore the most direct route. Algae can grow a new
crop in as 
little as three days!
All we need do, is somehow, speed up the oil producing
rate by several orders of magnitude, to create a
petroleum replacement in short time spans, of weeks,
instead of eons.

One of the real beauties of that approach, is that we
can just build 
photobioreactors, and create a precisely controlled
"Perfect 
Ecological Niche" environment, and our algae will go
right to work, 
doing what comes naturally to them. 

Give then the right niche, and they do all the work!

Diatoms are just a subset of algae.

Not only do they make fuel biomass; they make opal
(pure 
polysilicon) frustules (half-shells) too!
When I developed my "Diatomic Energy" breeder feeding
program, I had 
to feed sodium silicate to my diatoms to avoid silicon
starvation. 
Silicon starvation would stress the diatoms and make
them begin TAG 
synthesis (oil production) to save up energy for "Hard
Times" 
To "Breed" new diatoms in my "Diatomic Energy" breeder

photobioreactors, I had to encourage sexual
reproduction to make 
nice new full-sized opal polysilicon frustules for the
new "highly 
silacious" and extremely sexually active juvenile
diatoms. 
Think of this like the old Star Trek Episode entitled
"The Trouble 
With Tribbles" 
The trouble with Tribbles was that they "were born
pregnant!"
That's is just about the case with sexually
reproducing diatoms. 
Asexually reproduced diatoms use the parent's old
frustules as a 
mold-template to produce a new, slightly smaller copy.
So each 
asexual diatom is smaller than a asexual
parent.Asexual diatoms grow very fast, creating
blooms, but with diminishing silicn returns.
To make full sized fresh opal polysilicon frustules,
sexual 
reproduction is the only way. (but you already knew
that, didn't 
you) 
In order to grow diatoms, I found that I could control
the growth 
process of the diatoms by intentionally regulating the
available 
soluble silicon, as sodium silicate (water glass), as
well as trace 
elements like phosphorous, boron, strontium,
molybdenum, selenium 
and several others.
If "Cultured Diatomic Energy" biomass production
methods were 
adopted, using diatoms as the photosynthetic organism,
(and by 
substituting easily removed or solar non active trace
elements in 
the diatom diet), it may be possible to develop a
"diatomic energy 
process" that would create and preserve the diatom
frustules as an 
organically, and biologically, grown, ultra pure
"opalene solar grade polysilicon! " 
Diatoms use phosphorous to grow their phospholipid
membranes, and 
quite probably avoid depositing it in the frustules,
(especially if the phosphorous supply were
intentionally very limited), As it is needed for 
photosynthesis. 
If boron were excluded from the growth
photobioreactors, there would be little or no boron to
contaminate the silicon frustules. The two principle
difficult to remove contaminants in sand may not be a
problem at all in "Cultured Diatomic Energy" solar
grade polysilicon cultivation. 

By using the nascent "Diatomic Energy" Biofuels
industry, it seems 
we could possibly co produce the following value added
commodities;

1)Biogasoline fuels
2)Biodiesel fuels
3)Vegetarian Grade Omega-3 heart healthy oils 
4)High quality protein meal to feed to animals or
humans
5)Nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizes for recycling in
agriculture, 
or algae-culture
6) Biologically pre-purified Solar grade diatomic opal
polysilicon

It would be a real boost, to both the Solar PV
industry, AND the 
Biofuels industries, if such an important value added
synergy could 
be developed, to reduce costs, and increase profits,
in both 
industries. 
Low costs and genuine profits, are the drivers, and
the 
capital source, for the much needed, geometric
expansion, in both 
ALT/energy industries. 

Hog farmers brag that they "use everything but the
oink"

Diatoms are silent, but they do "Glint" in the
sunlight!

Perhaps, we, in the nascent biofuels industry, can
even find a way, 
to put that Glint to a very good use!" 


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