#3  Broadband Internet by Balloon

Google’s X labs is apparently on to a mission to provide Internet access for everyone anywhere around the world, which serves both public and Google’s base purpose, it users will increase many folds. The latest way to make that happen, with much of the world still not connected to a grid, is by way of supped-up hot-air balloons:

“Then there’s X’s still-secret project to bring Internet access to undeveloped parts of the world. A decade ago, David Grace, a senior research fellow at the University of York, spearheaded a project to mount broadband transmitters on high-altitude balloons, as part of a multicountry initiative backed by the European Commission, called the Capanina Consortium. The initiative never progressed beyond the experimental stage. Grace now says that he has heard that Google is working on such balloon-based broadband technology,” as stated in Bloomberg Businessweek.

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