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Recent Examples of chimneyIf your property is located in a northern area, for instance, consider finding a chimney expert to clean out your chimney after the winter months.—Ryan Barone, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 California Photos: Fires ravaging California after heat wave Sept. 10, 2024
On the north side of Highway 2 on Wednesday, fire lapped at thick vegetation that surrounded a two-story house with a brick chimney.—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024 The bottom line: Get those jackets out of storage and sweep those chimneys.—Meira Gebel, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024 The only contemporary style introduced in the restoration were three solar chimneys added to a former stable that has been turned into a multifunctional hall for large events, including FloraCult, a yearly, four-day plant and flower show that takes place at the end of April.—Luisa Zargani, WWD, 15 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for chimney
Catch up quick: Capturing the carbon from the flues of plants, like gas, coal and ethanol, and storing it underground (called CCS) has long been technically but not economically feasible, and in development.
Katie Fehrenbacher,
Axios,
6 Sep. 2024
The dog owner told GMA her apartment's leak was caused by a bird's nest sitting in the flue of her building's gas water heater.
Warehouses may not have smokestacks releasing pollutants that the EPA and local agencies typically regulate.
Justine Calma,
The Verge,
12 Sep. 2024
In the days when the Harlem River was lined with smokestack industry, its bridges swung open and closed constantly, six or seven times a day, to let ships through.
In back, a pipe is leaking, damaged when the wall supporting a heater was torn out.
Suzanne Seggerman,
Curbed,
14 Nov. 2024
Now, a team of engineers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help reduce the number of fatbergs that form in sewers.
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