Giant airships could replace mobile phone masts
09 Jul 2006
A Swiss inventor has drawn up plans to create a network or high altitude airships to replace terrestrial mobile phone masts.
The technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems, would drastically reduce radiation remove the problems that networks have in finding suitable sites for their masts.
Kamal Alavi is a former aerospace engineer and is planning text flights of the airships in 2007. Solar powered GPS systems and giant propellers will keep the 60 metre long helium filled zeppelins 21 kilometres above the earths surface.
The system would also be able to carry radio, television and internet signals making the initial £20 million cost of each airship seem quite reasonable. Around 30 of the ships would be required to cover Europe.
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A Swiss inventor has drawn up plans to create a network or high altitude airships to replace terrestrial mobile phone masts.
The technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems, would drastically reduce radiation remove the problems that networks have in finding suitable sites for their masts.
Kamal Alavi is a former aerospace engineer and is planning text flights of the airships in 2007. Solar powered GPS systems and giant propellers will keep the 60 metre long helium filled zeppelins 21 kilometres above the earths surface.
The system would also be able to carry radio, television and internet signals making the initial £20 million cost of each airship seem quite reasonable. Around 30 of the ships would be required to cover Europe.
mad4mobilephones.com © 2006
http://www.mad4mobilephones.com/news.php3?id=136
rudkla - 14. Jul, 08:22
