August 31, 2013 at 11:38Google justified their project of the planetary Internet Loon in terms of the distribution of balloons in the stratosphere
In an August Bloomberg interview , Bill Gates rudely made it clear what he thinks about the Google project, known as Project Loon - we are talking about a balloon system to allow people in remote areas of the planet to connect to the Internet:
One of the main questions for the project was the question of how exactly the system of balloons will be able to provide stable coverage for a certain area in the stratosphere, where air flows are considered stable, but also in a certain sense randomly directed.
One of the project staff Den Piponi (Dan Piponi) carried out a computer simulation of the problem and the results are now available publicly. The main answer is yes, stable coverage is possible.
Having available information on the wind regime at different levels of the stratosphere, Den set some physical parameters for each ball and launched a simulation to evaluate the dynamics of the movement of the balls and their distribution over time. A screenshot of the simulation is presented below:
The balls in the diagram are colored in different colors depending on the height of their position in the stratosphere and, as you can see, if you select certain physical parameters of the balls in accordance with the direction of the air flows of the stratosphere, their distribution will be quite "dense" (though the scale of the diagram is not known) for high-quality radio coverage of a certain area.
Thus, it was concluded that the least predictable part of the project is not really such, and as such there are no physical obstacles (from the point of view of the atmosphere).
A video explaining Den himself can be seen below:
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When you die of malaria, I suppose you can look up and see a balloon, but I'm not sure how this can help you. When a child has diarrhea, then there is no site that could cure him.
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When you're dying of malaria, I suppose you'll look up and see that ball, and I'm not sure how it'll help you. When a kid gets diarrhea, no, there's no website that relieves that.
When you're dying of malaria, I suppose you'll look up and see that ball, and I'm not sure how it'll help you. When a kid gets diarrhea, no, there's no website that relieves that.
One of the main questions for the project was the question of how exactly the system of balloons will be able to provide stable coverage for a certain area in the stratosphere, where air flows are considered stable, but also in a certain sense randomly directed.
One of the project staff Den Piponi (Dan Piponi) carried out a computer simulation of the problem and the results are now available publicly. The main answer is yes, stable coverage is possible.
Having available information on the wind regime at different levels of the stratosphere, Den set some physical parameters for each ball and launched a simulation to evaluate the dynamics of the movement of the balls and their distribution over time. A screenshot of the simulation is presented below:
The balls in the diagram are colored in different colors depending on the height of their position in the stratosphere and, as you can see, if you select certain physical parameters of the balls in accordance with the direction of the air flows of the stratosphere, their distribution will be quite "dense" (though the scale of the diagram is not known) for high-quality radio coverage of a certain area.
Thus, it was concluded that the least predictable part of the project is not really such, and as such there are no physical obstacles (from the point of view of the atmosphere).
A video explaining Den himself can be seen below:
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