Why is America better then England at freedom

Just come back from a quick ride and while I was trundling along I remembered this:

Tesla had devised an electrical 'system' that lit a flourescent tube (also his idea) 10 miles from new york with no wires, that was self perpetuating once started. It used a 'wave' of electricity that was in empathy with the earth vibrating at 440hz, and not the 50hz that will presently kill you. (it's more complicated than that however that is the general jist. Upon discovering that this system would be 'free' and wouldn't require literally billions of tonnes of copper, Teslas workshops mysteriously burnt down.

The dude was experimenting with huge coils that wound up voltages well into the tens of thousands. He was also extremely interested in ways to transmit that power across space without wires. It's just possible that there's a more straightforward reason why his workshop burned down.