Reduce high power consumption by keyboard and trackpad

I am running Fedora 27 on a 2014 11 inch MacBook Air, using GNOME 3.26. I only average about 5 hours on battery instead of the 9 hours this model would last running Mac OS. I know getting the 9 hours of battery life on Linux is not feasible, but I was hoping for more than I have now. Surprisingly, according to PowerTOP, the most significant drain on the battery is the keyboard and trackpad, which are apparently a single unit. The first lines of output from PowerTOP: The battery reports a discharge rate of 4.77 W The power consumed was 253 J The estimated remaining time is 8 hours, 22 minutes Summary: 176.4 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 6.3% CPU use Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description 2.41 W 100.0% Device USB device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Apple Inc.) 1.77 W 5.0% Device Display backlight 211 mW 0.9 ms/s 41.5 Timer tick_sched_timer 128 mW 16.3 ms/s 15.5 Process [PID 1854] /usr/bin/gnome-shell 90.9 mW 213.3 µs/s 18.0 Process [PID 8] [rcu_sched] I have checked PowerTOP on a regular basis for several weeks, and power usage for the keyboard and trackpad are typically about 2.4 Watts as shown above, although I have seen it as low as about 250 mWatts and as high as 4 Watts. Running LXQt instead of GNOME did not make a difference, which causes me to suspect this is a driver issue. I tried Ubuntu 16.04 from a live USB for comparison, but Ubuntu's version of PowerTOP did not provide a wattage breakdown. In another Linux on Mac-hardware power consumption question , power consumption by the keyboard and trackpad was only 188 mW. How can I reduce the keyboard and trackpads' power consumption to a reasonable level? Or is PowerTOP being inaccurate?