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He was not "ridiculed and shunned" and did not "die in misery." He did make some financial errors and had to sell off many of his assets (including patents) to make ends meet, but he was such an influence that, at his death, the U.S. government confiscated all his research and classified it "most secret."

You know, a simple search of Wikipedia would have helped.

but he was such an influence that, at his death, the U.S. government confiscated all his research and classified it "most secret."

That was what houeto meant. The government confiscated his free-energy machine because of Bush's family ties to big oil.

You know, a simple search of Wikipedia would have helped.

Ok, from the search of Wikipedia:

In 1900, with $150,000 (51%) from J. Pierpont Morgan, Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility. In June 1902, Tesla's lab operations were moved to Wardenclyffe from Houston Street. Among the various application of the 700-plus patents accumulated by Tesla, the most controversial today is his Wardenclyffe Tower. The tower was billed as the start of a global system for wireless telecommunications but was also intended by Tesla as a demonstration of wireless electrical power distribution. In 1903, upon hearing of Tesla's plans for wireless power transmission, Morgan refuses any more funding to support the Wardenclyffe Tower project.

Around 1916, Tesla filed for bankruptcy because he owed so much in back taxes. He was living in poverty.

Tesla started to exhibit pronounced symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the years following. He became obsessed with the number three. He often felt compelled to walk around a block three times before entering a building, demanded a stack of three folded cloth napkins beside his plate at every meal, etc. The nature of OCD was little understood at the time and no treatments were available, so his symptoms were considered by some to be evidence of partial insanity and this probably hurt what was left of his reputation.

At this time, he was staying at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, renting in an arrangement for deferred payments. Eventually, the Wardenclyffe deed was turned over to George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria to pay a $20,000 debt.

Tesla died alone in the hotel New Yorker of heart failure, some time between the evening of January 5 and the morning of January 8, 1943. Despite selling his AC electricity patents, he was essentially destitute and died with significant debts.

Not exactly the kind of ease and relative luxury that I would care to go out with. Furthermore, I seriously doubt that folks really wanted to hang out with a guy at a party that has to walk around his chair three times before he can sit down.