The Aurora Project

Our primary objectives:

• Water the Pomegranates (Granadas en espanol)- this means set up a water pumping system for the existing and soon to be planted trees from lower elevation water sources to the top of the land for gravity-fed drip irrigation.
• Use renewable energy supply for water pumping.
• Explore the potential for solar array grid tie-in with local utility, i.e. to sell excess solar electricity back to the utility.
• Explore the potential of micro-hydro energy generation.
• Deliver our findings from the technological and design know-how to the strategies for sustainability in order to empower others to use renewable energy water pumping for their needs.

• Duration: 3 months preliminary research and design, 3 months on-site in Chile beginning in mid-September 2007
• Site: 10 Hectares in the western foothills of Santiago, Chile