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 outer train of reactors would operate at generally cooler temperatures and would be used to evacuate oxygen from the hotter inner train, without the need for energy-consuming mechanical pumps.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023

The relationship between black holes and accretion disks is one of the most energy-consuming processes in the universe, right up there with gamma-ray bursts, in which black holes devour entire stars, Kaaz said.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023

No cars to catch, no matinees, no city streets, none of the teeming, empty, energy-consuming occupations of the city child.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna