Friday November 28 2014   Jonathan Wilson, online managing editor Turning sawdust into gasoline Despite an ongoing global over-reliance on fossil fuels, scientists fortunately keep coming up with new and innovative ways of deriving a fuel source from waste material. The latest development comes from Belgian researchers who have developed a method for turning sawdust into the building blocks for gasoline that could be used as an additive in plastics or fuel. The chemical process modifies cellulose, present in non-edible plant matter such as straw, grass, cotton or paper, by removing oxygen bonded to its hydrocarbon chains while preserving the … Continue reading E&T news weekly #28 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week