Energy cost savings could be substantially realized once the lower power-consuming power supplies became available.
Users must unplug the devices to stop them from consuming power.
It pinpoints what appliances in your home are currently consuming power.
The all-consuming power of the game messes with brain cells.
The simple fact is that the bottom half of American income earners are losing oil consuming power to the top quarter of Chinese income earners and the top one tenth of Indian income earners.
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The less-powerful cores take charge during routine functions, consuming less power and extending battery life.
But they'll have the advantage of consuming less power, extending crucial battery life and allowing the machines to run cooler.
Homes and farms are consuming more power today than industries and businesses.
In addition to consuming less power, the drive operates four degrees Celsius cooler, requiring less cooling in the system rack and data center.
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Yet, the entire petabyte of data is backed up, moved to a disaster recovery site, consuming additional power and space used to store it all.
What's more, thanks to improvements in Trinity's design -- specifically in its tweaked Piledriver cores -- it was able to deliver this extra computing grunt while consuming less power.
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By contrast, early attempts to build adaptable, Sandbridge-style chips--which use so-called software-defined radio--have foundered, running more slowly and consuming too much power.
It is also said to be more energy efficient, consuming so little power it is able to remain on for a considerable time after it has been powered down.
In addition to netbooks, the Atom microprocessor is used in a variety of other places including smartphones, tablets, car infotainment systems, smart TVs, low power consuming servers, and energy management systems.
Those calculations are based on a laptop's consuming 25 watts of power each hour, which is what Intel estimates today's systems consume on average.
Most of the coal is used to generate electricity, with UK power stations consuming some 53.2 million tonnes in 2003 - the highest since 1996.
Excelling at compute and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), these solutions redefine data center graphics capability while consuming 95 percent less power at idle and dramatically cutting data center operating costs(4).
The most compelling remains Pixel Qi -- a hybrid LCD technology that can be switched from a standard, full-color LCD backlit mode to a Kindle-like monochromatic reflective mode viewable in direct sunlight (while consuming 80% less power than standard LCDs).
By pinning the price of power to market demand, MHP rates are supposed to send consumers price signals that accurately reflect the costs of producing the power they are consuming.
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High efficiency engines help conserve fossil fuels and reduce emissions by consuming less fuel while generating an equivalent amount of power.
But with the economy set to grow by up to 7% this year, and tens of millions of Brazilians consuming more after leaving poverty, investing in more power generation is essential.
"There is almost no regulation concerning water or power use, no minimum standards for water-consuming appliances ... and very few energy requirements for buildings, " he laments.
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Micro-grids are independent controllable and defined systems including electric generating and consuming assets that can be connected to or disconnected from the larger power grid, and they are becoming more popular.
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These major nodes are not only critical to the nation's power-grid and telecommunications capability, but would be extremely difficult and time consuming to rebuild or repair.
In particular, E Source identified the 10 largest power-drawing plug loads while in active mode and the five largest energy-consuming plug loads over the course of an entire year.
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Because solar power production makes the most sense in sunny, arid climates, this is precisely where consuming scarce water resources is most harmful to the environment.
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