But they'll have the advantage of consuming less power, extending crucial battery life and allowing the machines to run cooler.

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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.

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The all-consuming power of the game messes with brain cells.

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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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High efficiency engines help conserve fossil fuels and reduce emissions by consuming less fuel while generating an equivalent amount of power.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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