The method of very public claims prior to verification make me doubt this very much. I suspect, with nothing to back it up but my own suspicions and basic knowledge of physics, that all investment inquiries are not turned down. That is only a image to put forth while bigger private investment is being accepted.
If it fails it fails. If not, and if they have stumbled onto some previously unknown phenomena, then the scietific community has the data to study, the patent office might consider a patent for it, and then they can make some money and we can tell the ragheads to go eat sand and drink their oil.
From my point of view, I have nothing to lose and am quite willing to keep an open mind and sit back and watch.
I may not be a physisist, but I'm smart enough to know, or at least surmise, that what we know about the universe could probably fill a thimble.
Relatively speaking.