I agree with your estimates of the situation.  Tesla was indeed a genius at the same level as van deGraf and Einstein.  No doubt in my mind that Tesla's Tower experiments were sabotaged by the then powerful electricity moguls.  That his funding was withdrawn when he was close to free broadcast power and he was harassed is the same scenario which was carried out to sabotage the compact, instant-on, automobile steam engine of White and Doble.  If we dig deep, we will find the same sabotage of Cold Fusion technology by (((them))).  You ask "what's wrong with this picture?" Dependence upon oil and machinations of (((der judenscheissuntermenchen))) of course.