Sean Interviewed on The Last Word, May 3rd 2006

This past Thursday, Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, was interviewed by Matt Cooper of The Last Word, a radio talk show on Today FM in Dublin, Ireland. Here is a link to the audio. The interview starts at around 11 minutes into the show, and it's about 7 1/2 minutes long. Thanks go to the reader who pointed this out to me! Here are some of the more juicy excerpts:

On the Jury:

13:02 "Their mandate is to basically come in and prove us wrong"

13:16 "They started the 9th of January"

13:32 "The names of one of the jury names did actually leak on the Internet"

This is another confirmation that Dr. Jeff Bechtold is one of the jurors.

On the funding of Steorn:

13:54 "We're privately funded by private Irish investors"

Back to the Jury:

15:06 "It's safe to say that if it didn't work, the jury would have delivered already"

I wonder how the Jury feels about that! As far as this being a scam or hoax:

17:15 "This is not a question of you know it be a small joke... We have put our family futures on the line"

And finally:

18:18 "The deepest reaction we've had, we've had threats from scientists, and I'm not joking, we've had threats of physical violence from scientists"

18:32 "We are not a scientific organization, I mean the validation is fundamental in something that is such a large claim, but for us we are a business. We want to get beyond this and go on and get this technology in to the market"

If you didn't catch Matt's original interview with Sean back last August, here is a link.

SciGuy Reports and More Bannings

Today the only activity in the forums had to do with a few bannings. Unfortunately no explanation was given, but as nleseul points out in a comment here:

Just a guess, but maybe if one account was banned for being obnoxious, then the other two were banned for the same reason, being that they, you know, belong to the same person.

The most interesting part of the whole banning activity was learning that the administrator nosy banned them. I didn't even know there was an admin named nosy!

Also today the SciGuy from Houston, Eric Berger, published a blog entry with an update on Steorn. Eric contacted Dr. Jeff Bechtold and actually spoke with him briefly:

I contacted Jeff earlier this month and received a polite reply, but he wouldn't spill any goods on what Steorn is up to, or what he thinks of the technology.

Dr. Bechtold's silence to me implies that he's definitely a jury member. We've seen how potential jury members who didn't get select react when asked questions.