Google, the balloons will provide internet to all - Aftonbladet

Google has ambitious plans for how to fix the internet to Earth 4 billion, which is still without.

The balloons will float 20 kilometers above the ground – and form a network that reaches the most desolate households on our globe.

For us, the internet is the obvious and most likely has it helped you to gain access to this particular article.

But for more than 4 billion people on earth, it is anything but everyday.

search engine company Google wants to change that.

project Loon has started trials which sends up quantities of helium-filled balloons into the sky. The balloons are made of plastic, measures 15 meters in diameter and is equipped with a trip computer that is powered by solar panels, according to AP.

First attempts

According to Google themselves to balloons to help spread the internet by internet users loose on the ground put up antennas on their houses which then can access the internet from the sender in the balloons.

Some 30 balloons have been sent up from Christchurch in New Zealand in the first attempt.

“It’s still very early, but we believe that a network of balloons that float around the earth with stratospheric winds, can be a way to offer a cheap way to get internet access to rural and remote areas with poor coverage down on earth, or relief when the communication infrastructure is affected, “wrote Google in a statement according to AP.

balloons, through their advanced equipment to receive signals from ground stations and then send on to the internet to solve the Kiwis.

“A little strange”

About 50 people involved in the trials in New Zealand and they’ve got red antennas to receive signals from the balloon equipment.

One of the first who got to test the new technology is Charles Nimmo, contractor and farmer in the small town of Leeston.

– It’s been a little strange. But it’s exciting to be part of something new, he says to the New Zealand Herald.

Google’s dream vision is to have balloons in the stratosphere over the globe which would make it possible for anyone to connect to the internet – everywhere.