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Instead of the jagged hole of the sheared-off riser pipe, the well was fitted with a new, simple chimney-like opening, which Monday spurted a plume of oil made frothy by injected chemical dispersants.
Sealing cap placed on oil well as Interior Dept. issues ban on offshore drilling 2010
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Solar updraft technology sounds promising enough: generate hot air with a giant greenhouse, channel the air into a chimney-like device, and let the warm wind turn a wind turbine to produce energy.
EnviroMission Plans Massive Solar Updraft Towers for Arizona | Inhabitat 2010
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Instead of the jagged hole of the sheared-off riser pipe, the well was fitted with a new, simple chimney-like opening, which Monday spurted a plume of oil made frothy by injected chemical dispersants.
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Sure, Nippon has always embraced oceans of alcohol and chimney-like smoking Altria's Philip Morris and British America Tobacco thrive on it.
Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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Sure, Nippon has always embraced oceans of alcohol and chimney-like smoking Altria's Philip Morris and British America Tobacco thrive on it.
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In the middle of the room, uneven, tightly nailed boards entombed a chimney-like object, a dumbwaiter.
A STRANGER IS WATCHING MARY HIGGINS CLARK 1977
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Sometimes when the hogán is unbearably smoky a rough chimney-like structure, consisting of a rude cribwork, is placed about this smoke hole.
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Higher and higher rose the smoke, ascending pyramidically up the chimney-like gorge; and, the quick-darting tongues of flame could be seen spreading through the hazy veil, while the crackle and roar of the fire sounded fiercer and fiercer.
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At various other points in the canyons examples of chimney-like structures occur, none, however, constructed on the elaborate plan of that last described.
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It was not unnatural, therefore, that the cub should stop to sniff enquiringly at a thin stream of fresh air that gushed from somewhere near the floor and rushed up the chimney-like stub.
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