Using LENR to produce palladium
EdOriginal source:
Александр Никонов
Невозможное в науке. Расследование загадочных артефактов (2022)
The Impossible in Science. Investigating mysterious artifacts (2022)
by Alexandr Nikonov
Translated via DeepL with minor editing.
Excerpt from Chapter 3 Part 8
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American uncle:
You asked me where is my Nobel Prize why there's been no progress since we published? - drumming his fingers on tabletop, Vladimir Dmitrievich said thoughtfully.
- There is! Not for nothing Americans offered me to go to the USA in 2012.
So in 2012 the quietly sitting at home Vladimir Dmitrievich was contacted by some Americans. Via Skype. Having previously about Kovalev from the world star Georges Loshak who had considerable prestige in the world of physics.
Georges characterized Kovalev in excellent words. That's why a Skype signal rang out in Kovalev's apartment. After establishing a connection the American with a Macintosh in his hands, walked straight through the shop with laptop, told and showed Kovalev what he had never expected to see. A representative of a huge American holding company in the course of the virtual Skype tour told him that they had vacated a warehouse and set up a workshop the size of a soccer field and set up endless tables and flasks and other things in which Kovalev's keen eye immediately recognized Vachaev's equipment.
- In this gigantic workshop through which the American walked with a laptop. On the tables there were huge measuring beakers 2-5L size for aqueous copper sulfate solution from which they're making palladium on an industrial scale. They even showed me my paper, they showed me computer calculations based on our work, thanked us for this work...
It has to be said that Americans are a clever people. When the famous "five authors paper" on transmutation was published and Kovalev started giving talks at institutes, it was immediately recognized not only in the scientific world, but also in the business community. So in 2007 in Moscow after one of his lectures Kovalev was approached by a nice American and he said:
- Dr. Kovalev, we have read your work. Could you provide us with copies of all Russian printed works that have been published in Russia regarding transmutation in the public domain? I was sent specifically for this. At the words "in open sources" the American raised a finger upward, emphasizing the remark. Apparently, so as not to be as a spy trying to buy up secrets. So Kovalev, with a simple soul, took the American, accumulated and gave him all the open Russian articles on the subject. And the American went away happy.
Five years passed. And in 2012 you already know that Kovalev was given a virtual tour and he recognized the equipment in operation. It's marveling that it took the Americans five years to get palladium production up and running.
- But then I realized why it had happened. It took them a long time to find resonant modes, because Vachaev's work didn't say anything about it and the Americans didn't know our theory. They had only our program.
- About the program later... And still, what does this shop look like? - I clarified, trying to imagine.
- On the tables stood this height, - Vladimir Dmitrievich - shows the distance from the table top, - measuring cylinders, flat bottom, with cables coming down from a grid at the top to feed the plant a coil transformer is placed around the reactor.
The process - the isolated potential is applied and you can see the pale green-blue liquid bubbling in this place. Endless tables, tables, tables, tables... And on each table there are about twenty of these glasses. Lab technicians walking around. There's a reaction going on, and after copper has been worked out by the nuclear process and can't find a reaction partner in the liquid phase the process stops. And nothing else
happens.
- And copper's partner is who, or rather, what?
- Cheap additives. You have to have the right concentration of copper in the solution! If there's too much copper, the process does not start. Because the ratio of copper atoms, additives and water atoms has to be quite specific! These are Vachaev's subtleties which he never revealed to anyone, but the Americans found them... Later Vachaev's daughter Tatiana, a pretty girl, by the way, asked me:
"After Daddy's death, we can't get back to the same to the same amplitude that he had. Do you know why?"
I said - "I do, because your daddy salted the solution by adding chemical elements to make as many atomic partners as possible so that the transmutation process could take place. I mean, it's an avalanche, but there's no chain effect where the cone of evolution goes all the way to the explosion. Here, the process gradually flattens out and goes on until all the incoming ingredients are used up. The process simply burns the material to the end and stops."
In general, as the Americans themselves told Kovalev, they invested in the the palladium project 90 million dollars, but now they are producing about a ton of palladium per year (the price per gram is about $100). A ton is not much, which allows, on the one hand, not to collapse the market (in a year in the world about 200 tons of palladium is mined), and on the other hand, as far as Kovalev understood, to cheat on VAT, because the added value is one thing but it is declared differently.
- All right, - after listening to the American success story and taking a virtual walk around the workshop, he said, sitting at home at his computer.
- You have learned how to produce palladium on this equipment. You invested money. You made money. Good for you. What do you want from me? What do you need me for?
The Americans, sitting in a small group at the table on the other end of the wire they looked at each other:
- You see, Dr. Kovalev, we've got a problem....
The problem the Americans had was the following - after investing over 90 million dollars and spending five years on prospecting they never learned how to make gold, so they only make palladium in relatively small quantities. That's why they came to Kovalev.
- You can't make gold with Vachaev's equipment! For gold you need a completely different circuit and completely different amperage,- Kovalev said.
After that, the representatives of the concern once again looked at each other and invited Vladimir Dmitrievich to the U.S., promising to settle all the formalities. But unfortunately, he had a family accident at that time, and it was impossible for him to leave the country.
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Afterword by Ed: Kovalev used in the book is not real name but the real name is V.D. Kuznetsov. It can be found in the mentioned paper:
Low Energy Transmutation of Atomic Nuclei of Chemical Elements
V.D. Kuznetsov, G.V. Mishinsky, F.M. Penkov, V.I. Arbuzov, V.I. Zhemenik
published in
Annels de la fondation Louis de Broglie, Volume 28, no 2, 2003 p 173-213
The paper can be found here - https://fondationlouisdebroglie.org/AFLB-Web/en-annales-index.htm