I started poewrtop on my laptop last night.  It showed normal behavior then,
but when I got back to it this morning, it is showing rather insane levels.

This is a Thinkpad X240 with two batteries that was plugged in to AC
power the whole time, if that matters.

John

   712 W      7.0 ms/s      52.4        Process        xfce4-terminal
   567 W      5.2 ms/s      24.8        Process        /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/w
   527 W      1.4 ms/s      59.2        Process        /home/jgoerzen/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-li
  50.0 W      1.4 ms/s       5.7        Process        psi-plus-webkit -session 2cfbb422a-de36
  47.5 W    164.5 µs/s       3.9        Process        /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd
  37.5 W    112.1 µs/s       2.3        Process        xscreensaver -no-splash
  30.0 W      1.6 ms/s      14.4        Process        icedove
  30.0 W    111.7 µs/s       1.3        Process        nm-applet
  17.5 W     50.6 µs/s       1.1        Process        /usr/bin/xprop -root -spy
  10.0 W    303.5 µs/s       8.5        Process        x-session-manager
  7.51 W    428.1 µs/s       8.3        Process        xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-
  4.60 W    100.0%                      Device         Radio device: thinkpad_acpi
  2.33 W     60.0%                      Device         Display backlight
  2.28 W    100.0%                      Device         USB device: Touchscreen (ELAN)