Bricks and Mortars

Two Hours with Bent Urup Brick and Mortars Lawrence Reichard             On September 25, I awoke in Odense, Denmark, home of famed Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.   I walked to the train station and took a half-hour train to Fredericia, where I was picked up by a daughter of Bent Urup.             Bent Urup is a gregarious and energetic man, and he loves to talk about his work.   He is perhaps the world's foremost expert on Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS), which Nordic Aquafarms plans to use for its proposed Belfast industrial fish farm.   Urup was the first to develop salt-water RAS, and he invented RAS 2020, which he says is the world's most efficient and cost-effective RAS System.               Urup designed and built Maximus, a Danish smolt farm he owned for ei...

24 Hours in Denmark Bricks and Mortars Lawrence Reichard             I was getting worried.   I had been procrastinating about getting lodging in the far northwest corner of Denmark, where I was planning to look at the Denmark operations of Nordic Aquafarms, a Norwegian company that wants to build in Belfast one of the biggest industrial salmon farms in the world.               I didn't think it would be hard to get lodging in that remote area, the summer season being well over.   I didn't know the area had become a surfing destination called “ Cold Hawai'i. ”   The first 2-3 places I tried were booked, and I was forced to start looking out of town, in the countryside, though I had no transportation.             I finally got a place, in the small village of Hordum.   But I didn't...