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    The Green Trap: A Thriller

    By Ben Bova

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    Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother Paul wants to find out who did it…and why.

    Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the way, a lot of people seem to be interested in getting in their way, or discovering what they know. It's clear that Michael was working with cyanobacteria, the bacteria that crack water molecules and release free oxygen. It's less clear why this would get anybody killed. Or why oil billionaire Lionel Gould wants to pay Paul and Elena big money for the details of Michael's work.

    Then the truth emerges: Michael had found a way to get cyanobacteria to crack hydrogen out of simple water molecules. A process that could be industrialized, producing enough hydrogen to cleanly power the world. Practically free fuel, out of one of the planet's most abundant resources: water.

    No wonder everyone, from Middle Eastern heavies to hired domestic muscle, suddenly seems to be trying to get in Paul and Elena's way.

    As the world's secrets—and their own—teeter in the balance, both Paul and Elena must decide what to do before it's too late.

    Contemporary, topical, and exciting, The Green Trap is a thriller of today's energy skulduggery—both the kind you read about in the headlines, and the kind you don't.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 14, 2006
    ISBN9781429957762
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    The Green Trap: A Thriller
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    Ben Bova

    Dr. Ben Bova has not only helped to write about the future, he helped create it. The author of more than one hundred futuristic novels and nonfiction books, he has been involved in science and advanced technology since the very beginnings of the space program. President Emeritus of the National Space Society, Dr. Bova is a frequent commentator on radio and television, and a widely popular lecturer. He has also been an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry.

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    • 3/5
      Fun murder mystery. Touches on global warming, oil politics, money and its power in US politics. It's more about money and greed; Bova books are always about the people who are surrounded in sci-fi of some kind. In this case, our hero is duped by a pretty woman; together, they interact with a Senator and a tycoon. In essence, the technology seems good, but greed takes over and people drop like flies before it.
    • 2/5
      Too long. The story needed a tightening up to increase pace
    • 2/5
      Wow. Ben Bova’s “The Green Trap” was pretty awful. I would discourage you from reading it not just because it’s a bad novel, but because it paints a lily white picture of hydrogen energy without pointing out some of its major disadvantages.Paul Cochrane’s brother Mike is a microbiologist who discovers a way to extract hydrogen more efficiently than currently known means. But he’s killed before being able to do anything with the data. Thus begins a long, circuitous route to an evil (of course) oil executive who wants the data. He claims he wants it so he can be at the forefront of the transition between a fossil fuel-based economy to a hydrogen based one. But of course he really wants to suppress the data until he’s squeezed the last bit of petroleum from the ground.Meanwhile, Paul begins running around the country trying to find out who killed his brother. Surprisingly soon after Mike’s death, a woman, Elena Sandoval, shows up, claims she’s something she’s not, and off they go hither and yon to get answers. Of course she’s stunningly beautiful and Paul falls for her. Throw in a US senator, a UN terrorist, and the one-dimensional hit man Kinsington and you've got one helluva mess.Throughout the story, we get “news items” about how great hydrogen is from scientific journals, newspaper articles, etc. What the Bova fails to mention is that with the increased need for water to create the hydrogen, water prices will skyrocket. He implies that the energy companies are simply giving lip service to alternative energies because they want to appear like they’re being proactive, while they continue to gleefully rape Mother Earth. He also paints the generic scientist as someone who cares not a whit about money, just truth and answer. Right.Stay away from this tripe!
    • 3/5
      A bit juvenile and simplistic, but ok for a quick read when you have nothing else to do.