The world needs a new source of energy, an unspillable source.

Why are we taught about Thomas Edison but not Nikola Tesla?

As children, the schools teach us all about Edison; about how he invented the light bulb and other things. Yet Tesla is never even mentioned; not his discovery of AC current, nor his various other discoveries, many of which we may never see come into fruition (such as the wireless transmission of electricity). Why is that?