Sentence examples for wasting power from inspiring English sources

On Paris-Marseille runs, for instance, France's fast TGV passenger trains use hilly terrain near Lyon to speed up and brake without consuming or wasting power.

Tickets: $7. Earthly Pleasures Aside from environmentalists, children are probably the biggest experts on energy-efficient living: you don't see tricycles, skateboards and playhouses wasting power.

"I ran an old Pi off four AA batteries for four hours just to play a video game a while back, and that was wasting power on bluetooth and speakers.

IAN WOOFENDEN and Matt Buchman, neighbors in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, share a similar quest: to avoid wasting power in a way that most Americans unwittingly do every day.

This is contrary to the UPA scheme which gives equal importance to all sensors regardless of the correlation structure and thereby wasting power.

It works with Windows and Mac computers (though the bundled software is Windows only) and will also power on and off with your computer, so you're never wasting power.

Graphic-intense screen savers can actually waste power.

All of this wasted power was costing me money and pumping unnecessary CO2 into the atmosphere.

A few companies say they are using extensively re-engineered software and cooling systems to decrease wasted power.

This worked for me, though I am not sure why they did not install a slightly larger turbine or why they "wasted" power supplying a TV (40w per hour) which felt oddly out of keeping.

In order not to waste power unnecessarily, the previous constraint should be tight at the optimum.