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Solar sails don't produce a significant amount of thrust, you didn't answer my question.
Nuclear, or if you want space stuff, build a station at the Lagrange point and sling from there? I don't need to be an expert in launch solutions to know that we shouldn't speculate mining the moon till it's well researched and that we have more accessible options here for the forseeable future with solar as my choice of example, so let's not jump the gun on another finite resource?
You can't launch a rocket using solar. Nuclear is exactly what helium-3 will provide. Speculation is the first step of exploiting the Moon's value.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Nuclear_fuel
Do your research before acting like you know what you're writing about. There are so many things to complain about when it comes to capitalism, this is not one of them.
I am referring to commercial speculation, and I literally laid this out in the second sentence, thanks!