13 example sentences using smokestack.
Smokestack used in a sentence
Smokestack in a sentence as a noun
Wind looks cleaner than a smokestack, go wind.
They kicked out smokestack industries for big-box retailers, and take in all the sales tax they can.
Very likely cleaner than coal plant smokestack exhaust.
For any smokestack putting out anything visible, I'd hint that it was CO2.
You can't buy land to build a smokestack plant in a quiet residential neighborhood - ditto.
I know my English quite well, but I always thought "smokestack" was some process chemistry thing, and not the US word for "chimney".
For the first version, I would recommend putting it on the smokestack of a coal or natural gas plant, which is putting out majority-CO2.
/b/ is the only one whose influence leaks out of 4chan itself, like rainbow-colored smog billowing out of a dilapidated smokestack.
Someone burning trash as a fuel for their industrial process that requires heat is going to invest in a gasifier burner so they're not spewing wasted joules out the smokestack.
Turn off the "Assume that water vapor evaporation causes a vicious warming cycle" and, bam, you can crank your smokestack slider to the max and not have any problems.
One of the most common is membrane separation, where C02 is selectively allowed to pass through in a relatively high-pressure, C02-rich source such as a literal smokestack.
This is because power plants are hugely, massively more efficient than internal combustion engines, and because it's much easier to filter pollution out of one big smokestack than thousands of small ones.
We need to get a handle on plastic pollution, and yes, it's a product of the petrochemical industry so there is that, but it's not the same type or scale of problem as the emergency around tailpipe / smokestack CO2 or methane emissions.
Smokestack definitions
a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
See also: stack