Or if they let it be developed they make sure the Big Boys are in control and the cost of the technology is set high enough so that it doesn't upset the other Big Boys. Example: nuclear power generation, GE, Westinghouse and oil corporations. Nuclear power was touted at first as practically free energy but before it rolled out it was over-regulated and government controlled to such an extent that only a select few companies could build it and its power generating costs were as expensive as oil.
Unless there is some new pulse, amplitude, or frequency modulation involved, I know how this guy can blow up his microwave oven with a bowl of food. If he doesn't get a grant for that, he can stand in front of a satellite uplink. Those have klystrons linked to parametric amplifiers through waveguide to the antenna. Many Watts of directed RF Power. X and Ku band usually. He might get a grant for putting a hot dog on a pool cue first.