Patent ID: 7261912

Claim:
A method for harvesting aquatic microflora and the byproducts of their lifecycles from seawater by co-precipitation together with the brine's constituent bivalent minerals, substantially all naturally occurring organic matter along with incidental trace minerals, entrained water and water of hydration comprising: adding colloidal silica to the seawater or brine, whereby an additive or synergistic alteration of the bioactivity of precipitates is achieved, further, treating seawater or other similar brine containing colloidal silica and aquatic microflora with an alkali base or alkaline earth base, precipitating the naturally occurring carbon-based chemicals and carbon-based particulate matter along with entrained water and water of hydration, phytoplankton, phytobacter, nanobacter, viruses and virus like particles together with the byproducts of their life-cycles and concentrating to the degree desired by decantation or centrifugation.