Maverick causing battery life to half from before

After upgrading to mavericks with my macbook air (mid 2009) it has went from a full battery of 5 hours to 2 hours. I have tried reseting the smc and NVRAM but that didnt work. Spotlight has also stop indexing aswell! So how can I fix this exactly? Im willing to downgrade to Mountain lion if needed

Ive deleted all the daemens and launch agents but no change in the battery. Having said that I cant find the user launch agents to delete the stuff on there: where could I find that?
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Air (Mid 2009)
          MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir2,1
          1 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
          2 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 0:5:33
Disk Information:
          APPLE SSD SM128 disk0 : (121.33 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 120.34 GB (64.06 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
          Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
User Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist 3rd-Party support link
          [not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
          Dropbox
Internet Plug-ins:
          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Outdated! Update
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          None
Old Applications:
          Audacity:          Version: 2.0.5.0 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Users/[redacted]/Downloads/audacity-macosx-ub-2.0.5/Audacity/Audacit y.app
          MOTUFireWireConsoleLauncher:          Version: 1.1 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/MOTU/MOTUFireWireConsoleLauncher.app
          SLLauncher:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/OutOfBrowser/SLLauncher.app
          MOTU Audio Setup:          Version: 1.6 59644 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          MOTU PCI Audio Setup:          Version: MOTU PCI Audio Setup version 1.5 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          MOTU PCI SMPTE Setup:          Version: MOTU PCI SMPTE Setup version 1.4 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          MOTU SMPTE Setup:          Version: 1.4.21 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
Time Machine:
          Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
               5%          WindowServer
               2%          hidd
               2%          EtreCheck
               0%          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
               0%          securityd
Top Processes by Memory:
          117 MB          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
          90 MB          Finder
          78 MB          Safari
          63 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          55 MB          EtreCheck
Virtual Memory Information:
          80 MB          Free RAM
          622 MB          Active RAM
          554 MB          Inactive RAM
          310 MB          Wired RAM
          261 MB          Page-ins
          1 MB          Page-outs

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