Most likely this...  He seems like a guy that got bamboozled into purchasing a worthless wallet.dat file and now thinks he can get the community to solve it for him after realizing he'll never be able to do it himself.  The problem is that nobody else will be able to do it either.  If it were possible, he would do it himself.  I'm guessing a few weeks of heating his home during the summer and wasting electricity probably got him to try this route, but it is as futile as if he were trying it himself, only now he's trying to waste other people's time and energy as well.