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Le Figaro
A December morning at the port of Esbjerg on the southwest coast of Denmark.
Puddles of water froze under the Scandinavian winter sky.
In this thin layer of ice are reflected long and wide white metal masts, stretched out in rows over part of the port area.
These wind turbine towers will be assembled directly at sea with their steel nacelle and then with the blades that will slice through the air to produce the precious energy that Europeans are snapping up on the markets, against a backdrop of war in Ukraine.
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On the right, this wind farm.
On the left, a mountain of coal.
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Here, we can concretely observe the ecological transition
”, observes, pointing his finger on both sides, the director of operations of the port, Jesper Bank.
On the one hand, the old world dependent on fossil energies, on the other, the future promised to renewable energies.
This site, populated by pharaonic cranes that lift tons of metal every day, is in the midst of expansion work.
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