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In the end I believe Alert would be a great place for solar farming and i believe the canadian government should definitely look into the abundance of land they have up near the poles and use them to stop fossil fuels and help our earth continue to thrive.

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Solar Farms typically cost 500,000 grand per acre, which is alot but with the revenue of powering up Canadas largest city it would definitely be doable, also submarine power cable technology has increased in the past years and is getting cheaper, therefore if the canadian government or government of another country were to fund this it could easily be done.

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A good number for solar farm cost per acre is typically $500,000 here in the U.S. You will find that typically a megawatt size solar farm system will need approximately five acres of land to be oriented and sited properly. This amount of acreage is also a good number if using any type of tracking systems on your panels to increase production levels is your goal. A one megawatt solar farm project will typically cost somewhere around $2.5 Million U.S. dollars and require a site of no less than about five acres. Building solar farms that have higher output rates while requiring less ongoing maintenance is what our company excels at.

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A good number for solar farm cost per acre is typically $500,000 here in the U.S. You will find that typically a megawatt size solar farm system will need approximately five acres of land to be oriented and sited properly.

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Toronto consumes 4907 megawatts of electricity in a year. So if a company sets up 5000 solar panels in Ellesmere Island which is huge that collects enough energy to power the biggest city in canada, which means it could power up any city in canada.

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Toronto summers are notoriously power hungry. As soon as the warm weather begins to bite, air conditioners and other power-hungry appliances come online, putting a massive strain on the province's power network.

In 2013, the last year for which detailed statistics are available, demand peaked on July 17. That day the Honda Indy was making a racket at Exhibition Place, the discussion around converting the Scarborough RT was approaching a farce, and the temperature peaked at 35.4 degrees--a scorcher.

As a result of all those people firing up fans and other cooling devices, Toronto Hydro reported a peak load of 4,907 megawatts. To put that in perspective, the peak load for the entire Republic of Ireland in 2008 was also exactly 4,907 megawatts.

That massive amount of power comes from a variety of sources, including the nuclear plants at Pickering, Darlington, and Bruce County. Combined, these three generating stations account for about 60 percent of the electricity available on the grid in Ontario.

A small amount also comes from a natural gas plant in the Port Lands that is activated during morning and evening peak periods. Sometimes Ontario buys power from other jurisdictions, when it has too much, it sells the excess.

Toronto Hydro, the company responsible for the infrastructure within the City of Toronto, says there are about 730,000 customers connected to its network ("customers" is a somewhat misleading term--high-rise apartment buildings and detached homes both count as one customer,) or about 2.4 million people.

Getting high voltage power to from the generating station to customers in a format suitable for domestic devices and appliances requires about 15,000 kms of overhead wires, 11,200 kms of underground wire, and 175,400 hydro poles.

There are at least 60,560 distribution transformers--the devices which convert high voltage electricity from the power lines to a level safe for use in the home--dotted throughout the city, some of which exist as camouflaged substations.

Laid out in a straight line, the city's overhead and underground power cables could reach the city of Perth on the west coast of Australia 18,143 kms away with more than 7,000 kms to spare.

The Independent Electricity System Operator, the Ontario body that oversees the electrical market in the province, has a neat dashboard on its website that displays real-time usage information for the province. At time of writing, Ontario was using about 14,890 megawatts of electricity, the bulk of which (62 percent) was coming from nuclear sites. Hydro (19.3 percent,) wind (13.5,) and gas (4.6) were the next biggest sources of electricity.

Power sourced from solar panels and biofuel made up less than one percent of the power on the grid. Demand was expected to peak around 6 p.m., with somewhere in the region of 17,000 megawatts being sucked from outlets and high-voltage hook-ups across the province.

Toronto, give or take a few thousand megawatts, will probably account for about a third of that usage--about 4,100 mws.

Hogtown, indeed.
Chris Bateman is a staff writer at blogTO. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisbateman. Image: Mitchel Gerskup /blogTO Flickr pool.

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The astonishing numbers behind Toronto's electricity use

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Toronto summers are notoriously power hungry. As soon as the warm weather begins to bite, air conditioners and other power-hungry appliances come online, putting a massive strain on the province's power network. In 2013, the last year for which detailed statistics are available, demand peaked on July 17.

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Now your probably wondering if Alert is on an island up near the north pole with little inhabitants how are you going to transfer energy to cities that need it. According to most scientists electricity can travel up to 4300 miles thats the distance from Alert to Cancun Mexico. And submarine power cables can be used to transfer the energy underwater to many different cities, such as Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Oslo, London, Boston, Madrid and even Miami.

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How Much Power Will Alert Generate In a Year

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For the 7 months alert gets sunlight it generate 1,155 kilowatts of energy per meter squared. That is only 500 kilowatts less on average then the sunniest place year round, Yuma Arizona which generates around 1600 kilowatts per meter squared. 1155 kilowatts is around 1.155 megawatts which is roughly enough power to power up 1000 Homes.

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I Chose Alert Canada because according to BBC It receives the most sunlight out of anywhere on Earth for the seven months it does get sunlight.

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One way to define the sunniest place is to ask which spot gets the most continuous hours of sun. If that is what you want, you might be surprised to find it is not the sunshine state of Florida you should visit, but a destination much further north.

Both Eureka and Alert on Ellesmere Island, Canada, have high sunshine statistics. Nobody calls the settlements home exactly, but military and scientific personnel are based there throughout the year.

May is the sunniest month, with bright sunshine possible for 65.4% of the day at Eureka: that is more than 15 hours. But with daily average temperatures of -10C (14 F), it is far from sunbathing weather.

That is because these research stations are two of the northernmost settlements in the world, lying within the Arctic Circle.

This latitude is known as the "land of the midnight Sun", because in summer the Sun never drops below the horizon. It can shine for days without interruption.

The opposite of midnight sun is polar night, when the Sun does not appear above the horizon

The Arctic is a snowy place but much of it is technically a desert. This means precipitation, and the clouds that produce it, are rare in some areas.

With the possibility of 24 hours of sunlight and relatively few clouds to obscure it, Ellesmere Island's research stations technically have the most hours of sunshine in the world - during the month of May at least.

But in the depths of December it is a very different story.

The opposite of midnight sun is polar night, when the Sun does not appear above the horizon. At the poles you get six months of each state.

The phenomenon becomes less extreme as you travel further from the poles, but at the northern tip of Canada you can still experience four months without any sunshine.

Instead you might fancy a place that is sunny all year, in which case you would need to travel more than 3,300 miles (5,300 km) south.

According to records from weather stations across the US, Yuma in Arizona is the sunniest place in the world. During daylight hours, which range from 11 hours in winter to 13 in summer, it has a 90% possibility of sunshine.

Most of these records are based on sites with good long-term records, typically airports

"The south-west US is under the influence of high pressure most of the year, which translates to a sinking and warming atmosphere above the region," explains climatologist Michael Crimmins of the University of Arizona, Tucson. "This creates many cloud-free days and warm temperatures."

Crimmins attributes Yuma's famous sunshine to its position in the sub-tropics. Thanks to a vast circle of winds known as the Hadley Cell, this area of the globe is both hot and dry.

"Warm, moist air rises at the equator forming tropical thunderstorms, and then on a large scale sinks around 30 N and 30 S latitude, resulting in surface high pressure," says Crimmins. "This latitude band is where most of the world's great deserts are located."

Yet Yuma's sunshine crown is hotly contested, because records do not show a whole picture.

"Here in the US, most of these records are based on sites with good long-term records, typically airports, so the extremes are based on a sample of locations that are co-located with cities," says Crimmins. These established weather observation stations are known as "first order" stations.

71% of the world's surface is covered with water

"There could indeed be more extreme locations, like Death Valley in California for example, but these sites wouldn't make the running because they aren't 'first order' stations," says Crimmins.

It would not be surprising if uninhabited spots turned out to be the sunniest. It makes sense for us to avoid living in constant sunshine, as too much of it can be harmful. On top of that, it is hard to get accurate recordings from deserts: they are notoriously inaccessible, and equipment there could end up variously smothered by sand or frozen overnight.

There are also plenty of other sunny countries, from which we have less data; weather stations are costly, and many of the world's sunniest spots are in developing nations.

Finally, we should consider our oceans and lakes. After all, 71% of the world's surface is covered with water.

So in 2007, NASA scientists took an outsider's perspective. They used satellites to reveal the Earth's sunniest spots.

Sensors on the satellites could determine whether radiation was being reflected from clouds or from the Earth's surface, including bodies of water. Sure enough, the prime locations for catching rays were found far away from any big centres of human habitation.

It is hard to get accurate recordings from deserts

Out at sea, the sunniest patch was found in the Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii and east of the island republic of Kiribati.

On land, an area of the Sahara desert in Niger, near to the ruined colonial fort at Agadem, was the place with the least cloud cover.

The researchers calculated the average solar energy these areas received per day from 1983 to 2005. In the desert it was 6.78 kilowatt hours per square metre, and at sea 6.92 kWh per sq m. That is roughly how much electricity the average US home uses to heat water each day.

"The numbers are derived using satellite measurements of clouds and other information about the atmosphere, then producing an estimate of the solar energy that reaches the surface," says Paul Stackhouse of the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, who studies the surface radiation budget.

"The locations identified were found to have the most solar energy reaching the surface over the surface of the entire Earth," says Stackhouse. "There are a couple of regions in Saharan Africa that are very close. This is due to relatively high position of the Sun near the equator and the lack of clouds due to atmospheric circulation processes."

This information has uses beyond pure curiosity, from helping people to site solar panels to a sunscreen alert service in Italy. The NASA team say they will release new figures in 2016, spanning 30 years of records, which could reveal even more extreme sun traps.

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Which spot on Earth gets the most sunlight?

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One way to define the sunniest place is to ask which spot gets the most continuous hours of sun. If that is what you want, you might be surprised to find it is not the sunshine state of Florida you should visit, but a destination much further north.