Chris Gabrys (Ph.D., 1996) and co-founder Tim Rodgers are the inventors behind the wind technology of Mariah Power of Reno, Nevada. Gabrys and Rodgers devoted three years of research and product development to create a "revolutionary new clean energy solution" they call Windspire. Marketed as an "environmentally friendly, propeller-free wind power appliance that is exceptionally quiet" Windspire is the founders' vision of a residential wind-energy product realized.

Gabrys, Mariah Power Company, and Windspire were feature in the July 2007 issue of Prosper Magazine.