Sentences with phrase «energy hog»

Probably Max, though, given the 6.6 - inch display in tow here, with Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440 pixels) resolution, which sounds like quite the energy hog.

It all started with Sam Roudman's article in The New Republic, Bank of America's Toxic Tower: New York's «greenest» skyscaper is actually its biggest energy hog As editor of architecture and design I had written about this building twice, including a post where I noted that it has been called «The World's Greenest Skyscraper».

Its a good thing that Google is interested in environmental issues, because it is an energy hog; Its massive data centers, which house hundreds of thousands of servers by some estimates, suck up huge amounts of power.

Is your refrigerator an energy hog?

So if someone wants to build a home that is an energy hog, maybe they should be free to do so — if we can find a way to make them pay for the real cost — including utility infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, carbon and environmental mitigation.

Some argue that it is and that builders should be allowed to build leaky, inefficient, energy hog houses if they want to.

Computers can be a student's biggest energy hog — if it stays on all the time.

But we do have this Achilles heel of very, very high basal metabolism to feed our busy energy hog brains.

Groups opposed to restrictions on greenhouse gases have fired back with their own ad campaigns, most notably a video from the anti-regulatory Competitive Enterprise Institute that attacks Mr. Gore as an energy hog (in his mansion) who, they say, would needlessly raise energy costs.

and Your cable box is an extreme energy hog]

They pull a lot of power too, but when your hands and butt are warm you tend to turn down the cabin heat, which is even more of an energy hog.

Energy Hog - Students will explore the Energy Hog website (http://www.energyhog.org/childrens.htm) to learn what an energy hog is and how to fight back.

The modern brain is an energy hog.

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To find out if your existing office equipment and anything else that uses electricity is being an energy hog, buy a device that enables you to monitor energy usage.

By seeing exactly where energy is going, Neurio helps homeowners find energy hogs and save money each month.

Ventilation systems in particular are notorious energy hogs.

Criticism of data centers as energy hogs fails to consider that these facilities often consolidate computer operations of dozens, if not hundreds, of companies that would otherwise be managing their own IT systems as opposed to simply not using computers, cloud computing advocates counter.

We see an impressive map / video screen tracking ocean currents, temperatures, etc. and there is a chart comparing electricity usage by U.S. citizens vs other countries (we are energy hogs, in case you weren't sure).

Since green power is intermittent, it would take at least 10 times the rated amount of «green» energy to displace just one equivalent unit of 24/7 fossil energy because your so - called 100 Watt solar panel delivers zero Watts at night and batteries are heavy toxic $ energy hogs.

Your dryer checks in at number two on the list of household energy hogs (right after your fridge), costing the average household more than $ 96 per year in energy, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Carbon credits are a marvelous way for people to become energy hogs while salving their consciences by giving money to people who often couldn't afford much consumption in any case.

It is power generation and industry that are energy hogs.

Why, for instance, should we force individuals to decide between turning off their refrigerator or their air conditioner when their buildings themselves are energy hogs?

I really want to know how much power a set actually uses, not that it uses somewhat less power than the other energy hogs in its size class.

There have been significant advances in refrigerator technology over the past fifteen years, which means that old refrigerators are one of the biggest energy hogs in many U.S. homes.

Let's look at some of the lesser energy hogs:

Those disk farms are notorious energy hogs.

Vanquishing this and other energy hogs is also great news for the environment.

These are some of the biggest energy hogs in households since practically everyone has them, and they're used all day long every day.

Some systems go beyond to detail where a home or apartment's energy vampires and energy hogs might be lurking, suggest solutions, and even give owners a chance to turn off problem power eaters before they wreak wallet havoc.

Another good reason to ditch cable TV is that cable boxes are major energy hogs.

Cable and satellite TV boxes seem to be a fairly innocuous part of a home, but the reality is that they are huge energy hogs and consumers are given very little information about how much energy the devices are using and what it's costing them.

Clothes dryers are huge energy hogs; basically they use electricity to heat air, pick up the moisture from the clothing and then throw it outside.

However you have a population of 303,824,646 energy hogs.

Only use a furnace or air handler with an ECM blower, since conventional blower motors are energy hogs.

Were such a design concept to be commercialised it could improve the habitable quality of indoor spaces, whilst radically reducing the use of energy hogging artificial air conditioning systems.

It doesn't mean people can't order energy inefficient TVs from online, or keep their existing energy hogs.

Or we can go on depleting falling aquifers in the SW to grow produce that gets shipped 1,300 miles to an energy sinkhole of a grocery store that we have to drive to and from in our energy hogging SUV... in between watering, fertilizing, fungiciding, and pesticiding our vast expanses of sexless, deathless lawns.

You can squeeze some extra juice out of the Galaxy S4's meager battery by enabling power saving features and disabling energy hogging features.

Today's smartphones might be powerful beasts, but they are also energy hogs.

(MCT)-- For years, traditional gas - powered tank water heaters have been one of the biggest energy hogs in the home.

Not exact matches

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

So, instead of relying on proof of work to create its currency, Telegram will rely on a new, less energy - hogging way of mining cryptocurrency than the original Bitcoin method.

Just as green - grabbing, millionaire musicians are never asked why the masses should give up their meager comforts to save the planet, while they themselves are permitted to grow ever - richer from their energy - hogging concert tours, Tebow could play a brightly - lighted night game every week and take a knee five times a yard to nothing but cheers, if only he embraced this year's anti-establishment, smart, and cool narrative.

Bill Gill, assistant vice president for sustainability at Smithfield Foods, shares how efforts including hog waste - to - energy could help the world's largest pork producer cut GHG emissions — and costs....

They teamed up with Duke Energy, North Carolina's largest utility, to convert a standard hog CAFO into a sustainable farm.

In many ways, motorcycles are a lot more practical for electric propulsion than cars: They are small and light and lack energy - hogging features like air - conditioning and entertainment systems.

They say there must be something about the compressed air which generates energy and enthusiasm, for the «muckers» — commonly known as «sand hogs» — vied with one another to make the record progress.

Pig Power Pays Off Page 58, by Wendee Nicole A burgeoning industry is going whole hog on a new kind of sustainable energy technology.