Astrum raises the probability of electrocution at the Lunar poles' craters. I hadn't thought of this...
... but I should have, because the issue was raised twelve years ago. There is a solar wind, which is 29 days a month at the poles, of ionised particles which will be ionising for the regolith dust at the craters' rims. As with katabasis at our own polar Antarctica, and I strongly suspect at Maxwell: this wind blows downward.
This makes me wonder if a Lunar colony might use this to power a dynamo even without direct solar-collection (which at the poles should also be month-'round potent). I mean, obviously the air pressure isn't much, but the electric charge might make up for a lot of that.
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