Google takes the help of giant balloons - Swedish Dagbladet

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Now the five billion people on earth who are still not online, get internet connection.

It may sound as an April Fool’s joke, but according to the BBC should sökjättens “Project Loon” tested in New Zealand. About 30 balloons, which is about 15 meters in diameter, will run around the earth in a controlled pattern.

each balloon to electronic equipment, such as radio antenna, flight computer, control systems and solar panels are. The balloons are supposed to fly far above normal air traffic, in the stratosphere, 20 kilometers above the ground.

Each balloon must then hover for 100 days and spreading the Internet to an area as large as 40 kilometers in diameter. The floating technique is supposed to connect to that part of the world that do not have available or affordable internet access.

connection path, which will correspond to the 3G and offered to 50 testers, will shift from the balloon. Google’s hope is to build a big enough balloon fleet to offer Internet access to test sites.

experts have warned of the difficulty of synchronizing multiple balloons in different wind patterns.

Google is not the first idea, a U.S. computer companies already use a similar technique for communication. Although a monitoring company sells equipment similar to the balloons, according to the BBC.