No law being broken. Simply up to 85% of the Potential energy contained in the waste can be recovered. They claim to use the other 15% to run the process.
The plant in Philly seems to be working and I don't think ConAgra would be building or have already built a full scale turkey guts processing plant if this were junk science.
I wish all the people on this thread who are looking for a SINGLE SILVER Bullet would see the bigger picture. ANYTHING which reduces our dependence on camel jockey oil is a good thing. It does not have to replace 100% of the oil.
The real encouraging application is using USA coal as the "waste" input and removing all the problematic byproducts and converting them to useful materials in conjunction with the energy contained in the coal. Stuff that up the camel jockeys you know what.
Debating this is just another form of intellectual masturbation, irrelevant and immaterial!!!
It is absurd on it's face, non-productive and a utter waste (there's that word again) of useful bandwidth!!!
You'd all get just as much out of wishing in one hand and spitting in the other!!! It's as silly as the 9-11 commission witch hunt and to me... just as disgusting. I see no need to twitch and flinch and buy all the fallatious arguments that "even a hog roots up a berry, now and then!"
America and Americans are greater and smarter than THIS!!!