A wind turbine
AssigneeVestas Wind Systems A/S
InventorsTorben Ladegaard Baun, Niels Vinther Voigt
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Abstract
A wind turbine comprising at least two separate units assembled to form a nacelle connected to a wind turbine tower. A first of said two units houses a rotor-supporting assembly and a generator. To enable a large degree of flexibility and the ability to reconfigure, a second of said two units houses an electrolysis cell stack powered by the generator.
Claims20
A wind turbine comprising at least two separate units assembled to form a nacelle connected to a wind turbine tower, wherein a first of said two units houses a rotor-supporting assembly, and a second of said two units houses an electrolysis cell stack powered by a generator.
A method of making a chemical substance by use of an electrolysis cell stack connected to a generator driven by wind energy, the method comprising:
- providing a wind turbine comprising at least two separate units assembled to form a nacelle connected to a wind turbine tower, wherein a first of said two units houses a rotor-supporting assembly and a generator, and a second of said two units houses an electrolysis cell stack, and
- powering the electrolysis cell stack by the electrolysis cell stack by the generator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.