Google Launches Internet Balloons to Cover the World in WiFi

Imagine you go deep inside a desert or climb a mountain or find yourself in any place that can be called as "the middle of nowhere", guess what? You have no Internet. What will you do to make contact with your family, friends or others? No Idea??? What if you got in trouble in the mid of Sahara desert and finding no way to escape and then, suddenly you see that your cellphone is catching WiFi signals there. What will be your reaction? Surely, you will dance in joy. How good if we able to get Internet access everywhere. Now it seems possible because Google is taking some major steps to provide Internet facility around the globe. Now a question arises that how they will? Well Google officially reveal this upcoming project on their blog stating that:

The Internet is one of the most trans-formative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity -- jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges.

Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month’s income. Solving these problems isn’t simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we’re unveiling our latest moonshot from Google: balloon-powered Internet access.

As this idea sound a bit crazy that's why Google named this project "The Project Loon". According to them, they will send high altitude balloons in the stratosphere to give the world WiFi access. The first step towards this project has been taken in the second week of June, 2013 when Google launched 30 Internet-enabling balloons in the Canterbury region of New Zealand.

The project leader Mike Cassidy says that these balloons use the combination of wind, solar power and "complex algorithms" to stay in a fixed part of the sky. Further he says that we have built a system that uses balloons, carried by the wind at altitudes (of about 60000 feet) twice as high as commercial planes  and will provide Internet with similar speed of today's 3G network or faster.

While it is not an overnight project, it might take 7-8 years to implement. But the way how new technology is coming everyday, we can say that some-day, we will be able to connect our phones to the balloons and get WiFi connectivity where there is none today.