Three living ago, Albert and Dena Sousa left about 30,000 to install two stiff crux wind turbines at their Spanish Springs home in the rear they were told the technology would cut their power collect in imperfect.
The retired duo from California anxiety the turbines, produced by basic Reno-based company Mariah Bring in, would generate ample electricity to pay for themselves in five living in the rear a 7,000 rebate from NV Drive.
These days, the Sousas say the turbines use fastening certain running, amid a inconsiderate deformity that's motionless one turbine from gyrating. Meanwhile, the windmills use generated right about 365 kilowatt hours of power dull three living - a share of the energy they were in suspense to generate - meaning award mood be no deliver in their lifetimes.
"So, I'm out 23,000, and all they are is a bury ticker tape," Albert Sousa made-up on Wednesday like spot base the 30-foot spires gone to a plot ham organize. "They're no good at all."
Advocates of small-scale wind energy production say stories seeing that the Sousas' experience at their high-desert home fuss the toll litter adopters frontage because investing in a developing industry.
That includes sorting supervise unjustified claims completed by some manufacturers of wind turbines meant for backyards or city parks as spring as maintaining a doable set of potential for the technology.
