Laptop or mobile? How much time did you spend watching the examples? What is your battery's storage capacity (milliamp-hours, usage hours, etc.)? Does it have a GPU? CPU usage? Is that battery drain consistent w/ other things that use that amount of CPU? etc.
Totally agree, under Chrome / OS X, fans went crazy on my rMBP 15 iGPU and CPU raised 80 C degrees just to watch a few slides of that site.
I closed the tab to stop overheating.
Huh. I use Safari / OS X on a 4 year old MacBook Pro. I keep it locked on the integrated CPU and it worked fine, barely increasing the system load. Only one or two of the effects near the end made any noticeable difference.
Of course you're pushing 4x as many pixels as me.
Try Safari (you have to enable WebGL in the Develop menu). I wonder it's a Chrome issue.