It doesn't work. It can be used at most as a supplement to the primary electrical generating system. It is dirty and doesn't produce enough power for a primary system, unless you want to burn an entire forest every week. It's all about energy density. Oil and coal have a high energy density, trash and wood chips don't.
Yeah even with a catalyst, there's no way to improve the inherent energy of the source material. Perhaps with microbial research we could condense waste into fuel but that's another subject. Thanks for entertaining my hypothesis.
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