[E. Pluribus Unum]

As a chemist somewhat familiar with how difficult it is to get chemical reactions to go in the desired direction no matter how pure and carefully selected your starting materials are, I find it hard to believe that a single apparatus could take any carbonaceous starting material and get the reactions to all go the same.

My second thought is that, even if this thing does work, you would almost certainly have to put a lot more energy into it than you could get out of it.

[Baseballguy]

The issue should not be if its effiecient. It would reduce the amount of landfills.

[honway]

My second thought is that, even if this thing does work, you would almost certainly have to put a lot more energy into it than you could get out of it

I encourage you to read the entire article. This is not a hypothetical theory. There is an industrial size fully operational plant in Carthage, MO. Most of the energy required in the process is produced from the waste going in. How's 80% efficiency sound when your raw material is stuff headed for a landfill.

[m1911]

I am thinking the same thing. The thing that gets me is that the company has a pilot plant and investors. Real ones, by the sound of this article. Usually these "perpetual motion machine/zero point energy" scams are trying to get investors, this one's building a production plant.