Steorn is an obvious fraud, most clearly because their claims are impossible. On other fronts, claiming scientists have verified it when no scientists can be found is also a problem. Never having made a product or having shown anyone a working model is a problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn
They're a company which promised to make a microgenerator and also did some sort of forensic work. They failed to file accounting reports, which are a strict legal requirement, for the last 2 yrs. This tends to imply the country is not only down the tubes but are into accounting fraud.
They're playing a game. They could demo a model in a few days to the right people. Instead, they set up this elaborate confirmation process in order to make themselves look confident in their discovery while delaying the actual confirmation by dragging along the actual steps.
The unique part is having the balls to take out an ad in The Economist to push their scam. That's a new one.