In the meantime, vendors suggest turning off power management, which turns off the Windows Me automatic shutdown feature.
My test taxes the computer more than a normal user and involves keeping Wi-Fi on, cranking the screen to full brightness, turning off all power-saving features, keeping email retrieval going in the background and playing an endless loop of music.
For lots of good reasons, more corporations are turning to solar power installations: lower electricity bills, generous state rebates, the 30% federal investment tax credit and the overall "green" sheen that comes with putting solar panels on an otherwise unadorned corporate roof.
Customers can minimize power surges by turning off appliances, lights and other equipment, except for one task light to determine when power has been restored.
In this moment of crisis, some homeless Pakistanis are turning to a higher power.
They also demonstrated the power of turning honey into money through beekeeping.
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By 2015 or so, the average silicon chip will consume about 150 watts of electrical power, turning this into heat a thought which is already taxing the minds of some engineers.
So every industry can benefit from web-scale compute power to accelerate turning data into information into competitive advantage.
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Hear about how a new clothing line in Japan is helping to trim more than two million tons of greenhouse gas emissions and learn how engineers in Iceland are turning volcanic heat into usable power.
As utility executives hustle to remain competitive in the deregulated marketplace, they are increasingly turning to the cheaper alternative, power market experts say.
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America, the world's second-biggest coal producer after China, has mammoth reserves and a power industry that is turning against coal (currently responsible for almost half of domestic electricity generation).
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Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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For the United States, on the other hand, the war of 1898 was the turning-point that led to world power.
By turning land from a source of political power into an economic asset, it might even make Colombia a more prosperous country.
Patents have become the vehicle of venture capitalists who exploit the incredible power of the patent, turning the playing field upside down in some cases.
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It also makes the steering more responsive by sending power to the outside front wheel when turning.
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America, which leads the world in installed nuclear power, may lead the world in turning away from the technology, too.
We're also working to make sure that we can start turning things like plants and woodchips into heat, power, and biofuels, and that will create new economic opportunities for rural communities.
SMUD's solar energy program is particularly popular, with solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells turning hundreds of area homes and businesses into mini-power plants.
Supporters of renewable energy said that was the equivalent of taking some 3.5 million cars off the roads or turning off the country's biggest coal-fired power station.
The decision comes after months of deliberations and soul searching after the Japanese nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant in March had the whole world turning against nuclear energy.
It is rooted in a flawed change to the constitution in 2004 that reduced the power of the president but stopped short of turning Ukraine into a parliamentary republic, fudging the responsibilities of president and prime minister.
There was increasing evidence that the tide was turning and that women and young voters would tip the balance of power his way, if they turned out to vote in large numbers.
And the shift has occurred from public power to private power, from political power to economic power, from hard power to soft power, with the end of the Cold War as the turning point.
Turkey, trading at just 10 times earnings, is a fast-rising economic power, with a core of internationally competitive companies that are turning the youthful nation into an entrepreneurial hub, tapping cash-rich export markets in Russia and the Middle East while attracting billions of investments to boot.
That means, for example, turning Mexican federalism from fiction to fact by fulfilling his promise to give more power to the states and to municipal governments, though without creating new fiscal burdens.
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And even in times of emergency, with potential power outages and people often away from home, consumers increasingly are turning to mobile broadband to connect with loved ones and gather news and information.
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Huang is now turning his focus beyond gamers to a host of new customers that will need number-crunching power: oil companies doing deep-sea seismic analysis, Wall Street banks modeling portfolio risk and biologists visualizing molecular structures to find drug target sites.
In effect, the end of Earth Hour is actually more detrimental to climate mitigation because simultaneously turning on so much equipment all at once creates a surge current that results in a sudden spike in power demand.
Pick a model with sizable knobs and buttons for the audio and climate control systems along with power-operated mirrors to help reduce the amount of grip strength needed and reduce pain associated with turning or twisting motions.
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