But as with everything around energy policy, notably including the 'race' to win government support for carbon capture and storage, it's proceeding at snail's pace.
Shared with several Welsh trade unions, in the final unhappy few years of the party's time in office in Westminster, work began on a makeover - but proceeded at a snail's pace.
The crowds are so dense that vehicles crawl at a snail's pace amid the tight human mass.
The inertia of banking and insurance customers is legendary, allowing banks and insurers to adopt new technology at a snail's pace.
This allows the crab to insert a large toothlike appendage on its right-hand claw into the opening, thus cracking the snail's shell.
Most WAP phones download data at 9.6 kilobits per second, a snail's pace compared to the typical desktop dial-up speed of 56 kbps.
It is no more than "hopeware" -- since the 1950s, Artificial Intelligence has moved at a snail's pace compared to what proponents have predicted.
The last time the eurozone's services index went below 50 was in mid-2003, when the eurozone was growing at the the snail's pace of 0.8%.
Despite the sluggish connection speeds we are still not operating at quite the snail's pace that some areas of rural Wales and Scotland are stuck with.
He notes that cases before the Nigerian courts are moving at a snail's pace and few of the plaintiffs have any faith in the local justice system.
One of the most sensitive issues in Turkey's political life today is its long-standing application to join the EU. The EU has been moving at a snail's pace regarding the application.
Yet area residents say they've seen no progress since then, while work on a towering bridge nearby, intended to supplement the rickety old one in Dandong, has slowed to a snail's pace.
They will be spoken about at length, withdrawn before a vote, reincarnated at report stage, debated at length again, and then voted on at snail's pace, and then revisited in a different form at third reading.
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In the process, he has run up against the Senate's snail-paced legislative process.
Raikkonen's crash not long after his brush with Hamilton and Massa's snail-like pace on the final lap of the race are proof of that.
Because tax reform is the centrepiece of Mr Kohl's snail-like programme to increase growth and jobs, Mr Lafontaine, a traditional left-winger, has made it the battleground for a personal contest with the chancellor.
While on the subject of British contributions, we'd be remiss to exclude Heston Blumenthal's modern classic: his signature snail porridge, which appropriates breakfast's oaty staple.
Indeed, one of "Turanor's" comparative limitations is its snail-like pace.
Mr David Nunn, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London, believes the snail slime could be useful.
Today's electrodes are bundles of wires that are fed into the snail-shaped cochlea of the inner ear and stimulate it in as many as 22 places.
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