https://www.cemex.com/-/cemex-and-synhelion-achieve-breakthrough-in-cement-production-with-solar-energy https://www.cemex.com/-/cemex-and-synhelion-achieve-brea

https://www.cemex.com/-/cemex-and-synhelion-achieve-breakthrough-in-cement-production-with-solar-energy https://www.cemex.com/-/cemex-and-synhelion-achieve-breakthr... >February 2, 2022 >For the first time ever, CEMEX and Synhelion successfully connected the clinker production process with the Synhelion solar receiver, producing solar clinker. >This revolutionary innovation is an initial step to develop fully solar-driven cement plants. they are trying it out, hopefully it works out for the whole manufacturing process, at an economically feasible rate --- some papers on solar heat: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544220311907 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605... https://www.irena.org/publications/2015/Jan/Solar-Heat-for-Industrial-Processes https://www.irena.org/publications/2015/Jan/Solar-Heat-for-I...