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power plant
noun as in energy-producing station
Example Sentences
The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program requires about 8,000 power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities to report their output each year, representing about 90% of the country’s emissions.
Harnessing the energy released when atoms fuse together could produce vast amounts of low carbon energy but most scientists believe commercial fusion power plants are still a long way off.
A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France's largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month.
Those emissions would have a climate-warming impact roughly equivalent to 27 gas-fired power plants operating year-round, even if the flares burned every molecule of methane released from the wells.
An environmentalist, she along with environmental groups and residents worked together to stop the construction of a power plant.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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