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PClab.pl Boys have managed to take a sample of upcoming Intel Core processor Gulftown i9. This equips Intel 32nm six-core and was tested three motherboards and PClab team compared the results with those cast by the current i5 Core, Core i7, Core 2 Quad and Phenom II.

As expected, this micro runs six cores and 2800MHz shattered in a second any hint of the other cpus hope, that if, in looking at issues watches and kernel core, Gulftown is not much faster than the processors Core or Core i7 i5. Professional users can greatly benefit from the extra 2 cores, and its support Hyperthreading, but this is clearly not a CPU for gamers and regular users. Read more… »

MIT announced, Friday 10/10, a new project, SmartBiking, aimed at further facilitating the use of bicycles, already pervasive in Copenhagen as part of the next UN conference on climate change be held in November 2009 in the Danish capital. The main thrust of this initiative is communication between cyclists, who can share information and their relative positions.

But another aspect of this project should lead to the development of a solution of electric assist bicycle incorporating the recovery of braking energy. This should result in reduced power consumption. The laboratory SENSEable City Lab, which is piloting this project, has provided very little information so far on the Smart Biking Green Wheel system. The only useful point that we can add to the diagram above, is that everything is there, in the rear wheel hub, including the battery. Convenient, no? Especially if one considers that this approach allows to consider practically any motorized bicycle exists.

Recall that the electric assist bicycle, amplifying the muscular effort, allows a cyclist to start lambda on journeys that could or would do to the sheer force of his legs. And that a modest energy cost. The electrically assisted bikes can therefore compete with the bike and car into new territories.

The Associated Press reported that the many technology companies are shifting to “cleantech”-based products—technology that utilizes alternative energy, more efficient power distribution, and new ways to store electricity, all with minimal impact to the environment—in what they see as the next big thing in the US economy.

As for now, large investments are being placed, such as the $150-billion pledge by the Obama administration over the next decade for energy technology, which they say could create 5 million new jobs.

Startup companies are also taking the opportunity to provide cleaner energy to consumers and industries. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based GreatPoint Energy has developed a technique of turning coal into natural gas in a cheap and efficient way than traditional methods. They plan on building a power plant in Houston beginning next year, which would cost $800 million and create thousands of jobs in the process.

Meanwhile, A123 Systems of Watertown, Massachusetts, which produces lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, had one of the most profitable public stock offerings this year amounting to $437.5 million. This is despite the fact that the company has yet to make a profit.

Despite all the positive outlook about the cleantech industry, how it will be able to save the receding American economy has yet to be seen.