He needs a so-far nonexistent AI operated ground penetrating scanner that only looks for laptop hard drives, to search the area of the landfill, were he knows the hard drive is.
His story is constantly changing. Wonder what his story is in the upcoming film about him ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74zel3ng1voDid James Howell release his NFT? I believe that he would have more success in making some money back from the loss of his private keys than actually getting all his money back by finding his lost hard drive.
Shower thought. What if he's actually a Bitcoin billionaire with good OPSEC pretending to have lost his private keys? He's probably cashing out today while everyone believes he has no Bitcoin.