Google Wants to Use Balloons to Cover the World in Wi-Fi

If you go late inside the desert or mount a mountain or find yourself in the South Pole or a remote farm or any billet that can be look at “ the middle of nowhere , ” reckon what ? You have no net . Well , Wired is reportingthat Google wants to change all that by air high - altitude balloon into the stratosphere to give the world Wi - Fi . Whoa .

Because of course Google would stargaze something as impossible and radical as drape the world in balloons 60,000 feet above sea stage so that the intact world can get on the net . It ’s something straight out of meetings about the future — something rooted in conversation between smart people who only involve each other , “ but why not?”—something even Google itself allow is crazy by call it Project Loon .

What is Project Loon , on the nose ? Only a plan to get hundred — nay , thousands — of gamey - pressure balloons to circulate the Earth and fall in net to billions of people on Earth . It ’s part of Google ’s famed Google X Lab which is bring in the world Google Glass and self - driving car . pumped-up cover :

It is an brassy proposal , and today in Christchurch , Google is holding a press league with New Zealand ’s Prime Minister to officially unveil it . Google will also stage Project Loon ’s large trial yet : 50 testers in Christchurch within the 12 - land mile range of mountains of the balloon will see if they can get connect from the sky .

How the heck will Google control the Internet return balloons ? varying airiness , apparently . It means head by pick off elevation to discover desirable steer currents . That sounds like guessing to me but Google take a firm stand it ’s controlled considerably than that . Google lets the balloon fly naturally but also will move them up or down to enamour winds in the counsel Google want the balloon to travel in . The balloons will be pack by wind at altitudes twice as gamy as planes and “ beam Internet access to the ground at speeds similar to today ’s 3 G networks or dissolute . ”

Read the whole report about the current testing of the Google Wi - Fi Balloons atWired . pick up Loon at Google . And wonder what ostensibly unsolvable problem Google wants to work out with the future with us down below . [ Project Loon , Wired , Image Credit : Wired ]

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