h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am advised in writing by eminent pagan Phillip Adams AO that Prime Minister Kevin VII-XI wishes me to take part in an experiment. From now on the intellectual elite will promote the subtlty and elegance of lunar power instead of the showy vulgarity of solar.

I can straightaway see benefits of this since it is at night that we need the lights on: not in the daytime when the sun is shining. That said I will write back to Phillip to tell him that the illuminati will be focussing their efforts on the dazzling light which emanates from Uranus.

But the moon is only in the night sky for half the time. I would suggest researching stellar power instead but, then, I'm not an intellectual.

Lager Boy.

Took your time.

It's comedic timing.

You should expand some of these ideas for The Post, you know. CRAP needs a platform for its ideas.

Traveller in Time not intelarctual either
"Perhaps a bit of a technician

Lunar Power actually would be Tidal Power, is already implemented in some sites. Drawback is the tides are only strong enough near the shore, inland they are quite useless. "

I suppose the tides are equally strong inland, but there just isn't any water there. NASA have a device sufficiently sensitive to detect the tidal movement in a cup of tea.

What about large inland lakes, then? There would surely be movement with the tides in a large body of water on a still night.