Cooling towers rise above the barren desert at Raser Technologies' Thermo Power Plant west of Minersville, Utah. A low boil chemical is turned into steam from underground geothermal water, powers generators and is then reduced back to a liquid through the cooling towers for resuse. Within six months of finding a huge geothermal field, a small company had fired up a power plant — just one example of how fast some are capitalizing on state mandates for alternative energy.