University of Costa Rica

School of Modern Languages

LM-1433 Translation III

Tecnología Solar

Prof. Geannette Soto

Nazareth Fallas

Susset Ramírez

June 2018
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Transcription Advance

Solar Tech Video

A massive solar field (...)

when finished it will cover 141 hectares

roughly the size of 265 football fields

break it down and you get this

tons of aluminum framing

nearly 200,000 specially designed mirror panels

and over 72 kilometers of heat

gathering tubes

these are the building blocks of a simple yet

powerful technology

It is called: concentrated solar power or CSP

Say: Solar power, and most of us think of roof panels

photovoltaic or PV technology

this glass encased solar cells

convert sunlight directly into electricity

problem is these solar panels capture just a fraction

of the sun’s energy and they are too expensive

for large-scale use

concentrated solar power, on the other hand,

doesn’t create electricity directly

Instead, it captures and concentrates the rays of the sun

to create heat

much the same way we did as children

But in place of the small magnifying glass

Nevada solar one uses huge parabolic

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or curved mirrors (...)

Man: when the sun heat that the mirrors is reflected just here

this is a what a parabola does every, every point

under on the mirror got to one line

this line is like a magnifying glass

getting really really hot

the mirrors, it’s made of very, very clean glass

there is no iron in it

so it’s, it’s if you compare this glass with your window

the amount of light that can in, in is hundred times more

than a window so it goes to the silver surface and it’s reflected

that’s where they are so, so efficient (...)

these mirrors focus the sun’s rays more than 70 times

their normal intensity onto a single a single focal point

a long cylinder filled synthetic oil called a receiver tube

the liquid travels through rows of mirrors and

gathers more and more heat

until it reaches temperatures of nearly

400 degrees Celsius

the hot tube then passes through a heat exchanger

where water is turned into steam

finally, like in traditional power plant

the steam drives the turbine to produce electricity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1HmY_Im

2. General aspects:
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● Introduction: Write some general information about the source text (video), the audience

you translated for (Spanish speakers worldwide, Latin American speakers, Costa Rican

speakers, etc), the reason/s of using that specific audience, and the methodology used to

achieve your task.

Describe the subtitling process using/citing material from the readings we have studied or

others you have consulted.

Describe the software you used for the subtitling process, the way you used it and its

advantages and disadvantages. Maximum: two pages.

● Subtitling process, sheet divided in four columns: First column: Original segment (in

English) Second column: Time, indicated in the following format: #m #s - #m #s.

Example: 0m 8s - 0m 10s Third column: Spanish draft translation (indicate the number of

characters) Fourth column: Spanish final translation (indicate the number of characters) ●

Conclusions: Include limitations and recommendations. Maximum: one page 3.

Other aspects:

● Use Arial 11, double space for the whole document

● Numbered pages, superior right margin

● All the sources using APA format at the end of the document

● Hand in (printed) on June 27, 2018 at 7 p.m. Be ready for the oral presentation this date

(15 minutes each group maximum) 4. Evaluation 20%:

● Transcription advance 5% by June 13 ● Final document 15% by June 27