COAL-FIRED


Meaning of COAL-FIRED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

coal-fired/gas-fired power station

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

power

It also stated that no new coal-fired power stations need to be ordered before 1990 or 1994.

Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders.

In a free market, polluting coal-fired power stations and unpopular nuclear ones should be less competitive because of rising environmental costs.

Hydrocarbon smog from traffic; smoke from a coal-fired power station.

Even a new cleaner generation of coal-fired power stations is 10 years away.

Trees consume carbon dioxide emitted by coal-fired power stations and other sources.

I have little doubt that it represents a future for coal-fired power generation in the next decade.

Helped persuade the Government to spend £200m cleaning Britain's beaches and £600m cleaning aerial discharges from coal-fired power stations.

station

This is because of the higher levels of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired stations compared with natural gas.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

wood-fired/gas-fired/coal-fired

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Additional generating capacity will be mainly coal-fired or hydro with some nuclear.

Emissions from a gas-fired plant are about half those from a coal-fired one.

Even a new cleaner generation of coal-fired power stations is 10 years away.

Helped persuade the Government to spend £200m cleaning Britain's beaches and £600m cleaning aerial discharges from coal-fired power stations.

I have little doubt that it represents a future for coal-fired power generation in the next decade.

In 1981 a £30 million government scheme was launched to encourage industry to switch from oil and gas to coal-fired boilers.

Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders.

This is because of the higher levels of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired stations compared with natural gas.

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