Sentence examples for as polluting as from inspiring English sources

Gas-fired power stations are roughly half as polluting as coal-fired ones.

Gas plants – about half as polluting as coal and faster to build – may make sense to build up to about 2025, Starace says, but not beyond.

(Landfills take up valuable space and emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas; and although incinerators are not as polluting as they once were, they still produce noxious emissions, so people dislike having them around).

It is roughly as polluting as South Korea, Britain and France, which have populations two to three times Australia's 22m people making Australia the biggest carbon emitter per person of any rich country.

But if it is created with fossil fuels, hydrogen is ultimately as polluting as they are, offering little help in reducing greenhouse gases, unless the carbon is somehow separated and stored.

They lack openable windows, suffer from dodgy air conditioning, and have proved just as polluting as the old buses, while the promised second conductor was too expensive to implement, so the back door remains mostly closed.

Living in a city as polluted as Beijing can grind.

Until the 1960s the waters of London's rivers were as polluted as its air.

"That means the whole process is just as polluted as before.

Delhi's air is today half as polluted as it was in 1994, and recent figures suggest that Beijing's is now dirtier.

The day was clear, as Handan days go, which is to say that the air was about five times as polluted as Manhattan's.