Stuck-on-stupid wealthy halting progress

We need a recovery program for those addicted to money. Here is an instance in which massive change for the better has been hindered by one powerful person's business plan:
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From:
Nikola Tesla, the Genius Who Lit the World
teslasociety.com/biography.htm
...Financially supported by J. Pierpont Morgan, Tesla built the Wardenclyffe laboratory and its famous transmitting tower in Shoreham, Long Island between 1901 and 1905. This huge landmark was 187 feet high, capped by a 68-foot copper dome which housed the magnifying transmitter. It was planned to be the first broadcast system, transmitting both signals and power without wires to any point on the globe. The huge magnifying transmitter, discharging high frequency electricity, would turn the earth...would project its electricity in unlimited amounts anywhere in the world...system for supplying wireless power to run all of the earth's industry.

Because of a dispute between Morgan and Tesla as to the final use of the tower, Morgan withdrew his funds. The financier's classic comment was, "If anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?"

The erected, but incomplete tower was demolished in 1917...
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League of Young Voters
theleague.com
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New Energy Congress Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies
peswiki.com/index.php/Congress:Top_100_Technologies_--_RD
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mcmurrayhatchery.com
10000friends.org/resources/links
pitt.edu/~copc/partners_c.html
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