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Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / power generation | | English term or phrase: band wagon | | Another ***band wagon that I would like to get off my chest***, and I know it’s important in Spain, and it’s important in my country and elsewhere. Its about – Coal is back – I think Coal never left. But Coal is back, o.k. Coal is back, but Coal has got to come back only if we capture the Carbon and store it. And when you look at the pile of programmes around the world, on Carbon Capture and Storage, there is something like 14 of them now around the world, not one of them is a pilot on Coal Fired Electricity with Carbon Capture Storage technology installed. And so it’s not proven for the power generation market yet, although my friend Mr. Josefsson has invested in a 30 megawatt plant outside of Berlin, I think you know about that, and he is saying that in 2008 I’m going to show that its works. Well one of the things that it does, very interestingly enough, is it lowers the efficiency of the coal power plant. You produce more CO2 but if you are capturing it and storing it, I guess that’s o.k. I don’t know, but do we really understand these things? |
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| | creencia popular; creencia común | Explanation:
Es lo que quiere decir para mí. A lo mejor viene de la expresión "jump on the bangwagon" o "subirse al carro o tren", otra actividad muy popular ya que muchos otros lo están haciendo.
Mike :)
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-09-22 11:46:32 GMT)
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band·wag·on (bndwgn)
n.
1. An elaborately decorated wagon used to transport musicians in a parade.
2. Informal A cause or party that attracts increasing numbers of adherents: young voters climbing aboard the party's bandwagon.
3. Informal A current trend: "Even brand-name [drug] companies . . . have jumped on the generics bandwagon" Beth Howard.
Mira las acepciones informales 2 y 3 - una causa que atrae o una tendencia actual. |
| Selected response from:
  Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 11:38
| Grading comment Gracias a todos, el comentario de ATozer es acertadísimo, pero el que me puso sobre la pista del término tópico fue Michael.
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