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Reply to 'Greenhouse gas emissions from synthetic natural gas production'

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Figure 1: Life-cycle GHG emissions and water consumption for SNG, coal and shale gas (revised from figure 1 in our Commentary2).

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  2. Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, California, USA

    Robert B. Jackson

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