Wardenclyffe Tower was Nikola Tesla's grand design for wireless energy transmission. But in 1903, the idea was too ahead of its time, and JP Morgan (himself) canceled funding in 1905, when he realized that it wouldn't be used for telegraph purposes.
The government blew it up in 1917 under fears of spy activity and later, JP Morgan, with his good buddy Thomas Edison, ruined Tesla's reputation and had his name removed from school books. It seems that now, a hundred years later, in the face of rising energy prices these types of radical ideas are being revisited.
Nikola Tesla - Wireless Energy
Nikola Tesla predicts the radio/internet (1908)
Nikola Tesla: Colorado Springs Notes, 1899-1900
Wireless energy promise powers up - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725955.stm
(wiki) Wireless energy
Tesla was received U.S. Patent 685,012 for the means of increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations. It is currently assigned to the primary Class 178/43 for "telegraphy/space induction".
(wiki) Teleforce
2009-02-02 - (physics world) - Electricity unplugged