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Report: Idle State Account for 68 Percent of Console Energy Drain A report from Carnegie Mellon suggests that gamers who use gaming consoles are wasting a lot of energy by allowing them to go into an idle state rather than turning them off when they are not in use. The report says that a whopping 68 percent of the energy used by gaming consoles is linked to their idle state. The ... 20 April 2012 02:31 GMT PS3 - Folding@home Application Updated Sony's dedicated their console to help curing diseases, with the aid of PS3 owners clicking on the Folding@home icon in the PS3 CrossMediaBar (XMB), thus letting their consoles work in the name of science. Idle time from 250.000 users has been used for folding protein for the past month (since the app was launc... 26 April 2007 05:47 GMT