Anyone heard from Steorn lately?

From Wikipedia, but I remember hearing a lot of interviews with these guys on Irish radio at the time. They've been very quiet lately.

In August 2006 Steorn placed an advertisement in The Economist to publicise its claim of discovering a free-energy device.[2] A press release "issued a challenge to the global scientific community" to validate its claims.[9] Steorn reported that, within hours of its advertisement, it was contacted by hundreds of scientists world-wide and many thousands of other interested people.[10]

Steorn's advertisement in The Economist stated:

“ we have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy. Our technology has been independently validated by engineers and scientists — always behind closed doors, always off the record, always proven to work.[2] ”

In explaining their claim, Steorn have further stated that, by free, they mean that "the energy produced is done so without recourse to external sources"; by clean they mean that "during operation the technology produces no emissions"; and by constant they mean that "with the exception of mechanical failure the technology will continue to operate indefinitely". Steorn believes that the sum of these claims is that their technology is a violation of the principle of conservation of energy.[11]

Steorn maintains that its invention has already been validated by no fewer than eight unnamed independent scientists and engineers "with multiple PhDs from world-class universities", and found to work, but that none of them were willing to publish their results for fear of becoming embroiled in a controversy. The company has declined to name them, citing mutually binding non-disclosure agreements.[12]

On February 9, 2007, Steorn stated that their technology would be available for license under the brand name "Orbo".[13]

[edit] Validation process
Steorn claimed that their advertisement in The Economist was to attract the attention of the world's leading scientists working in the field of experimental physics, challenging them to test their free energy technology.[9][14] They intended that twelve scientists would be invited to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove that Steorn’s technology creates free energy and to publish the results worldwide.[9]

On 1 December 2006 Steorn announced that a jury had been selected and had signed contracts, although their identities were not released.[3] The validation process reportedly began in January 2007[15][16] but no reports on the progress of the validation process have been released to date.

[edit] Failed demonstration
On 4 July 2007 a simplified example of the technology was to be put on public display at the Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields Market, London. It was said that the displayed unit would be constructed of clear plastic to show the arrangement of magnets and demonstrate that the device operated without external power sources.[17][18] The public demonstration was delayed and then cancelled due to "technical difficulties". Steorn initially suggested this resulted from "excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area"[18][19] but later blamed the failure on damage they said was done in turn to each of five bearings due to a greenhouse effect within the box.[20]