Comment Problems with the Process (Score 3, Informative) 54
Anerobic decomposition makes things beyond A carbon and some hydrogen.
You get a few Nitrogen/Hydrogens and more Sulfur/Hydrogens. Both of these gasses when oxidized will make acids that will eat up the equipment.
You can ruin an internal combustion engine in less than a day, and a boiler in a week if you don't have the boiler lined.
Alot of energy is imbedded in our sewage, from the machines in the field that prep and harvest the food we eat, to the trucks that move that food to the pumps that move the water then the sewage to be processed. With good engineering, some of that energy can be reclaimed, but the researchers make it sound like the process is 'simple' when it is not.