As an aside, Hoku Industries is establishing a US $220,000,000 plant here in Pocatello which will produce nearly pure polysilicates. These will be used for manufacturing solar cells.

The Hoku plant (which, for all you Right Wingers out there was founded in and is headquartered in Hawaii) will use several hundred thousand gallons of HOT water each month. The current thought is that they can share the hot water used by the malting plant and both industries will lower their costs. They will jointly pay the cost of cleaning up and cooling the water before it is returned to the Portneuf River.

Unlike the proposed coal gasification plant...which is going nowhere fast and whose progress is fine with most of the people living here.

The city and the university is also looking into wind power.