uneconomical

How to use uneconomical in a sentence

• The coal industry says carbon-capture technology is unproven and would make building new plants uneconomical.

  Obama Administration Issues New Rules Capping Carbon Emissions From New Coal Plants | Josh Dzieza | September 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The first steam engine invented by Hero was a rotary engine, but it was of course, most uneconomical of steam.

  Invention | Bradley A. Fiske

• It sometimes happens that good practice dictates the use of a comparatively uneconomical design.

  A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. Thurston

• I commented on the fact that camp cooking seemed uneconomical, to say nothing of its lack of finesse.

  I Walked in Arden | Jack Crawford

• In the farm region itself, much of the old division will pass away, being uneconomical and non-social.

  The Holy Earth | L. H. Bailey