WFC 455 — Hyperdrive

Abstract

Known as "Hyperdrive" from the references to it. No copy has been recovered yet.

What is known of it

Meyer numbered the Hyperdrive memo WFC 455, with a Detailed Addendum, 455DA, and dated both 1991. Nobody working on the archive has seen a copy. What is known of it comes from Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin, who read it and described the idea in his 1993 Southampton paper, Water as Fuel, citing "Meyer, Stanley A. Hyperdrive. Memo WFC 455/455DA. Grove City, Ohio 1991" as his source.

Griffin's account

This new development does not require the generation of hydrogen and its subsequent combustion. It applies the energy, made available electrically from high voltage pulsing of the ZPE, directly to the generation of a water jet. It does not require an engine and has no moving parts. The power level is governed, as before, by the applied voltage. Direction is controlled by feeding the jet through manoeuvring nozzles such as those fitted to Harrier V/STOL aircraft or space rockets. It is thus of special significance to marine transport.

He went on to sketch what a ship built for it would be: no propulsion machinery, propellers, rudders, stabilizers or hydroplanes, "four self contained hyperdrive units, two main ones aft and two smaller ones for'ard", and cargo submarines of prestressed concrete running under the Arctic ice. The one drawing of a Hyperdrive vessel the archive holds is his:

In his covering letter of 4 July 1993 Griffin told Meyer he wanted to discuss "how best to promote hyperdrive, marine gas-turbines, and heavy slow speed marine diesels" when they met that month, and among his conclusions for the marine industry was that "a further substantial R&D programme is required, in close collaboration with Meyer, to bring Hyperdrive into service", drawing on "existing marine pump jets and the control systems installed in aircraft and space vehicles".

The portable demonstrator

The old site carried a one-line page under Griffin's name headed "The Hyperdrive Portable Demonstrator": "This project is under consideration as a convenient means of demonstrating how zero-point energy can impel water without any moving parts as shown here." The two drawings shown with it were the linear and non-linear cylindrical resonant cavities from the Water Fuel Injector memo, not a Hyperdrive drawing, and they are not reproduced here. Whether the demonstrator was ever built is not recorded in anything the archive holds.