A Belgian cement works spent a century eating the chalk under its own feet, flooded the hole it left, floated 55,000 solar panels on the water and wired them straight into the kiln, and the whole array offsets about six weeks of what that kiln puts out in a year

1.0Autonotionhttps://www.autonocion.com/usLuis Reyeshttps://www.autonocion.com/us/author/luisreyes/A Belgian cement works spent a century eating the chalk under its own feet, flooded the hole it left, floated 55,000 solar panels on the water and wired them straight into the kiln, and the whole array offsets about six weeks of what that kiln puts out in a yearrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="ohxcWWzUKb"><a href="https://www.autonocion.com/us/cement-plant-panels-float-own-quarry/">A Belgian cement works spent a century eating the chalk under its own feet, flooded the hole it left, floated 55,000 solar panels on the water and wired them straight into the kiln, and the whole array offsets about six weeks of what that kiln puts out in a year</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.autonocion.com/us/cement-plant-panels-float-own-quarry/embed/#?secret=ohxcWWzUKb" width="600" height="338" title="“A Belgian cement works spent a century eating the chalk under its own feet, flooded the hole it left, floated 55,000 solar panels on the water and wired them straight into the kiln, and the whole array offsets about six weeks of what that kiln puts out in a year” — Autonotion" data-secret="ohxcWWzUKb" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.autonocion.com/us/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://www.autonocion.com/us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Holcim-Obourg-floating-solar-768x432.jpg600338