NOVELTY - A culture system, for photosynthetic microorganisms, comprises a culture tank; at least one light array positioned within the tank, where the light array provides light paths sufficiently short to provide photosynthetically effective light to substantially all of the photosynthetic microorganisms passing between adjacent light sources in the array; and a drive which causes relative motion between growth medium in the culture tank and the light array.    USE - The system is useful for photosynthetic growth of microorganisms, for carbon fixation and product recovery, for obtaining lipids from microorganisms, for lysing microorganisms, and for renewable carbon sequestering production of electricity (all claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The present invention provides a solution to vexing problems in culturing of photosynthetic microorganisms, especially algae. The system provides efficient light utilization with comparatively low energy costs.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are:    (1) a light distribution array, comprising light emitting wands mounted in a light mounting body and extending from the body, where the light emitting wands are spaced 0.5 to 5 cm apart;    (2) a system, for carbon fixation and product recovery, comprising a culture system comprising a culture tank; a light array comprising light emitting projections positioned so that the projections extend within the tank such that that essentially all culture medium in the tank passing between adjacent light emitting projections will receive photosynthetically effective illumination; a drive which causes relative motion between growth medium in the culture tank and the light array; and a process controller which monitors at least one culture parameter indicative of photosynthesis and regulates at least one of light duration, light intensity, and light wavelength;    (3) a method for growing photosynthesizing microorganisms;    (4) a modular system, for photosynthetic growth of microorganisms, comprising at least one photosynthetic microorganism growth module comprising a support frame; growth tanks mounted in the support frame, where each the growth tank comprises a growth sensor set and a light array comprising light sources arranged such that photosynthetically effective light is provided by the light sources to substantially all of the culture medium within the volume described by the light array, a nutrient injection system, where at least one growth process parameter is controlled by a growth controller in response to at least one signal from the growth sensor set;    (5) a system, for obtaining lipids from microorganisms, comprising an inline microwave system directing microwave radiation into microorganisms suspended in an aqueous medium in a conduit; and a micron mixer positioned such that it accepts the microorganisms after they are subjected to the microwave radiation, and which creates microbubbles in the medium where the microwave radiation lyses at least some of the microorganisms and the micron mixer causes additional cell degradation or cell lysis or both;    (6) a method for extracting lipids from microorganisms in a suspension by exposing the microorganisms to microwave radiation within an inline waveguide, where the microwave radiation is at a frequency and intensity sufficient to lyse at least some of the microorganisms; and following the exposing, passing the microorganisms through a micron mixer which creates microbubbles in the suspension;    (7) an inline microwave treatment system, comprising a signal generator which produces microwave frequency radiation; an amplifier which amplifies the microwave frequency radiation producing amplified microwaves; and an inline waveguide which receives the amplified microwaves and which is configured to allow flow of a suspension through the waveguide;    (8) a method for lysing microorganisms by directing microorganisms through a conduit; and directing microwave radiation into the microorganisms in the conduit at an intensity and at a frequency or frequencies sufficient to cause cell lysis;    (9) a method for providing an inline electromagnetic radiation lysing system by selecting one or more electromagnetic radiation frequencies which target cell membrane lipids or cell wall components to a significantly greater degree than microwave radiation at 2.45 GHz; constructing an inline electromagnetic radiation delivery system where the electromagnetic radiation is delivered to a suspension containing volume;    (10) a method for renewable carbon sequestering production of electricity by growing algae biomass in an algae culture system; separating the algae biomass from culture water; digesting the biomass, thus producing a combustible fuel; burning the combustible fuel in an electrical generating system, thus producing electricity; recycling carbon dioxide (CO2) from the exhaust gas of the burning to the culture system; and    (11) a system, for renewable carbon sequestering production of electricity, comprising an algae culturing tank; an algae/water separator which receives culture medium from the culturing tank and separates algae biomass from culture water; a digester which receives the algae biomass from the separator and digestion of the biomass in the digester produces methane; a methane powered electrical generator which burns the methane from the digester; and at least one CO2 collector which separates methane from CO2 from the digestion or collects CO2 from the exhaust gases from the methane burning or both, where the CO2 is recycled for growing algae in the culturing tank.