单词 | coal-fired |
释义 | coal-fired From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcoal-firedˌcoal-ˈfired adjective British Englishusing coal to make something work a coal-fired electricity generating stationExamples from the Corpuscoal-fired• In 1981 a £30 million government scheme was launched to encourage industry to switch from oil and gas to coal-fired boilers.• Emissions from a gas-fired plant are about half those from a coal-fired one.• Additional generating capacity will be mainly coal-fired or hydro with some nuclear.• I have little doubt that it represents a future for coal-fired power generation in the next decade.• Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders.• 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.• This is because of the higher levels of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired stations compared with natural gas. |
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