>>4229745

They let him continue until it was clear he couldn't use the earth as a capacity, or ?

>>4229852

He lost financial backers for being too eccentric and not delivering on his wildest promises

>>4229861

He died an old man and gave most of his tech away for free and really did change the world into the one we have now, but his free-energy ideas were going down the wrong path

>>4229948

>Go read up on the history of it.

I do he was an interesting person, and it's a shame he has only one corner of Bryant Park in NYC to honor him. He certainly scared the rich/land owners, but 'free' didn't mean limitless simply without wires. Easy to pressure his backers and his behavior did not help at all.