Cold Fusion: Cheap, Clean, Non-radioactive, & Ignored!

In 1989, Professors Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced the discovery of what would later be termed, "Cold Fusion." This was the result of a five year collaberation between the two scientists, and while they admitted that they were forced by circumstances to release their findings prematurely, the importance of their discovery cannot be denied.

They were met initially with scorn, derision, and accusations of fraud by many of their peers at the time, but further testing of their discovery has yielded confirmation from multiple respected and independant sources that, in fact, their Cold Fusion Effect does produce energy and evidence of neuclear reaction.

Below is an excerpt, a short laymans' description of the process taken from a memo written by Eugene F. Mallove, Sc.D to the (then) President of the US, Bill Clinton. The Memo is titled:

The Strange Birth of the Water Fuel Age:

The Cold Fusion "Miracle" Was No Mistake

...Professors Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced the release of nuclear-scale energy from an electrochemical cell using palladium as the cathode metal. In the cell, heavy hydrogen is forced into the palladium until a new class of nuclear reactions occurs, in which energy of great intensity is released without the deadly radiation or radioactive by-products produced by other nuclear energy processes.

Independant Cold Fusion experiments seem to indicate that there is some energy producing phenomenon going on there, although whether it's an actual nuclear reaction or not is unclear at this point. Some have suggested that rather than a nuclear reaction, successful experiments may be tapping into the theorized "Zero-Point" energy.

What I can't understand, and I'm not alone in this, is why we don't have any financial support from the government for research on Cold Fusion? This is a discovery, that if proven reliable and workable, could do more to save our planet from human excess than any other technology ever devised. It would be a cheap and virtually inexhaustable source of energy available to the entire planet.