Instead of using farmland to grow biofuels, he suggested, G. roseum could be grown in factories and its gases siphoned off to be liquefied into fuel.

• 如此一来，未来将可以在工厂里大量培养这种真菌，再吸取其制造出的碳氢化合物气体，液化后制成生质燃料，就不用再拨出大片农地来种生质燃料的谷类原料了。