Google has substantiated its plan for the planetary Internet Loon in terms of the distribution of balloons in the stratosphere
In an August interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates rudely made out what he thought about the Google project, known as Project Loon - we are talking about a balloon system to enable people from remote areas of the planet to connect to the Internet:
One of the main questions to the project was the question of exactly how a balloon system could provide sustainable coverage for a specific area in the stratosphere, where air flows are considered to be stable, but also chaotically directed in a certain sense.
One of the employees of the project Den Piponi (Dan Piponi) performed a computer simulation of the problem and now its results are publicly available. The main answer is yes, sustainable coverage is quite 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 estimate the dynamics of the movement of the balls and their distribution over time. A screen shot of the simulation is presented below:
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The balls in the scheme are colored in different colors depending on the height of their position in the stratosphere and, as can be seen, if you select certain physical parameters of the balls according to the direction of the air flows in the stratosphere, their distribution will be quite “dense” (although the scale of the scheme 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 actually not, and as such there are no physical obstacles (in terms of the atmosphere).
A video explaining Dan 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, there is no site that could cure him.
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If you’re dying of malaria, I’m suppose that you’ll help you. When a kid gets a diarrhea, no, there's no website that relieves that.
If you’re dying of malaria, I’m suppose that you’ll help you. When a kid gets a diarrhea, no, there's no website that relieves that.
One of the main questions to the project was the question of exactly how a balloon system could provide sustainable coverage for a specific area in the stratosphere, where air flows are considered to be stable, but also chaotically directed in a certain sense.
One of the employees of the project Den Piponi (Dan Piponi) performed a computer simulation of the problem and now its results are publicly available. The main answer is yes, sustainable coverage is quite 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 estimate the dynamics of the movement of the balls and their distribution over time. A screen shot of the simulation is presented below:
')
The balls in the scheme are colored in different colors depending on the height of their position in the stratosphere and, as can be seen, if you select certain physical parameters of the balls according to the direction of the air flows in the stratosphere, their distribution will be quite “dense” (although the scale of the scheme 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 actually not, and as such there are no physical obstacles (in terms of the atmosphere).
A video explaining Dan himself can be seen below:
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/192094/
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