The problem with applying ideas for canning to watercooling is that in canning, you don't have to actually touch the ingredients, and the ingredients can be sealed while they are over 240F. I can live for 120 years if I live a perfectly controlled life, but as such with watercooling, its not very feasable. Plus, all it takes is one surviving microbe to start a colony.
As for UV being harmul to humans, thats a pretty obvious fact, but I was thinking about the lights being cast in a resin 'sheet' and put in a nontransparent container resistant to UV rays. It would basicly be a high flow version of those UV sterilization frog fountains.
If you reread the filter part, I was saying to use it only when you flush the system, since very few 5 micron filter elements for <$30 can flow much water at all, plus they're bulky. Its basicly a supplament for scrubbing every inch of the system, so that you make sure no loosened particles can flow back into the system. Sterilizing each part individually would be great, but afterwards we have to carry them through our 'dirty' enviroment, as well as touch them with our filty hands (granted you could wear gloves).
And yes, I've searched for previous threads and read the other big ones, but they focus on the normal sterilization 'standards', which is focused more on bacteria rather than algae. Algae isn't a big issue on salmon fillets, nor is it particularlly dangerous unless in giant blooms. If you want me to, I can try resurecting the old threads, but I doubt I'd be able to steer them into how UV-A will kill just algae, rather than their current (past) course of all-around sterilization. The whole premise for UV sterilization is to clean things that are prone to bacterial growth, not algae - thats not what we need to be killing in our loops... I guess by starting 'another thread', I was bound to not get my message though despite wanting to focus the discussion differently.
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