Type in the word “Internet” in Google Plus Search and you’ll be in for a surprise. The topic going viral at the moment is Google’s balloon project called Loon. In fact, Trey Ratcliff did a long post in Google Plus that just blew me away with over 1400 votes and reshares!
Trey Ratcliff – Google+
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Release the Google Internet Balloons! Photos and video!
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Juliana Payson‘s insight:
Try to imagine a network, drifting balloons that swarm in the stratosphere, communicating internet from one balloon to the next. Just like the way phone towers come into reception as you drive through the states. Read more about Trey’s stunning behind the scenes story as the project was unveiled to him. You can read more about Project Loon here:
Loon for All – Project Loon – Google
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From www.google.com – Today, 2:14 AM
Project Loon looks to use a global network of high-altitude balloons to connect people in rural and remote areas who have no Internet access at all, help fill coverage gaps for areas that can’t be served profitably by existing providers,
If you go deep in the desert or climb a mountain or find yourself in the South Pole or a remote farm or any place that can be considered ‘the middle of nowhere’, guess what? You have no internet. Well, Wired is reporting that Google wants to change all that by sending high-altitude balloons into the stratosphere to give the world Wi-Fi.
These balloons are autonomous, save for the obvious ground control, and self powered with solar energy. You’d need a telescope to spot one. And the only interference they present is a notification to Air Traffic Control that a balloon is either ascending or descending. Even the parts have become reusable while in their testing phase.
Has Google found a way to be the new totally green ISP?
by – Juliana
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