  The evolution of the gluon plasma produced with saturation initial conditions
is calculated via transport theory for nuclear collisions with 0.1 <sqrt(s) <10
A TeV. The effective longitudinal pressure is found to remain significantly
below the lattice QCD pressure with these initial conditions until the plasma
cools to near the confinement scale. The absolute value of the transverse
energy per unit of rapidity and its dependence on beam energy is shown to
provide a sensitive test of gluon saturation models since the fractional
transverse energy loss due to final state interactions is predicted to be much
smaller and exhibit a weaker energy dependence than nondissipative
hydrodynamics applied throughout the evolution.
