Sentences with phrase «huge energy hogs»

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.

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.

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Perhaps surprisingly, until only about forty years ago, trading futures markets consisted of only a few commodity farm products, however, now they have been joined by a huge number of tradable financial and other tradable products such as precious metals like gold, silver and platinum; livestock such as hogs and cattle; energy contracts such as crude oil and natural gas; foodstuffs like coffee and orange juice; and industrials like lumber and cotton.

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.