energy-consuming

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Grace is sent into space on a one-way mission to stop the spread of an energy-consuming organism called Astrophage, which threatens to create a new Ice Age on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Oil shortages linked to the conflict are worsening, and major energy-consuming nations are considering extraordinary actions to contain the surge in prices.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

"This is a hard problem for roboticists as there's a lot of image processing that needs to be done to remove motion blur, which is time and energy-consuming," said Potdar.

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

But it asked agencies to start incorporating social cost figures when buying “large, durable, energy-consuming products and systems” — like U.S.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2023

A cup of acorn coffee and a fragment of brown bread could scarcely be declared ideal fare upon which to pursue such energy-consuming labour.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles