On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Here is a technological hoax that bamboozled $150 million from high officials in oil companies and governments. I did not realize such large, high-level hoaxes existed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oil_Sniffer_Hoax
Aha, that's different from the one I know about. In 1998 a local inventor from Canada was involved with this version:
Airborn "Stress field detector" based on totally new unknown physics attracts immense cash from petroleum-search investors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_Field_Detector http://www.newtechmagazine.com/issues/printer.aspx?aid=1000144312 http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=9746926 http://www.berkoblog.com/?p=146 (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
