Maybe they'll figure out cold fusion while their at it? Or find a way to communicate with Bigfoot? Looks and smells like a boondoggle to me. Let them break their economy even further with this one. Al and I may need to get in this one if their throwing money at nuts. Why not us?
Tesla was obsessed with bees. He often claimed humans were evolving towards the perfect society of the bee. Maybe he meant to combine the waggle dance with the Lindy Hop? Nick wasn't smoking reefer in Harlem in those days was he? It would explain a lot of his later behavior.

Tesla kind of went reverse Howard Hughes late in life, opening the windows of his rooms to let pigeons in to do as they wanted. Hughes problems seemed to have been caused by head injuries in plane crashes. I've often wondered if Tesla's problems weren't caused by exposure to high levels of electromagnetic radiation in his experiments? Both he and Hughes went off the deep end at ages atypical for onset of major psychiatric disorders and pioneered developments in fields in their infancy when the dangers weren't well understood.
Now, how do I teleport a penguin to someone's house? UPS?