To get around the local pollution problems and to adhere to the new air quality regulations, the industry started
building tall stacks to disperse the pollution instead of reducing it.
Not exact matches
As you
stack one on top of the other, describe what you're doing by saying «I'm
building a really
tall tower» or «Let's put this green block on top of the red one.»
Tom Steyer: Reclaim the title of world's
tallest building for the USA with a 7160 - foot
stack of $ 1 bills.
The tower will be
built in seven sections that are 28 feet
tall, 20 feet wide and 20 feet deep and
stacked, reaching a height of 200 feet, said Howard Biegler, launch operations engineer with United Launch Alliance.
Take a leading question, i.e., «How much would it cost to create a tower of pennies that, when
stacked together, would reach the top of the world's
tallest building?»
The image of a
stack of hardcovers as
tall as fifty Empire State
Buildings is fun, but also doesn't involve a concrete number.
The
building has a 377 foot
tall «solar chimney» that draws air out of the
building during the «shoulder» seasons and summer via the
stack effect.
To produce enough standby draft, a chimney must not only be as warm as the house, but it must also be as
tall as the highest part of the
building envelope in order to overcome the negative pressure due to
stack effect.
Sometimes your job search gets so frustrating that you just want to climb to the
tallest building in the city and dump a
stack of resumes off of the roof in hopes that it will land in the hands a recruiter or someone in a position to hire you.
The living room's custom bookcases were so
tall the contractor had to
build them off - site and
stack them here in components — but the extra effort was worth it.