Energy (and LOTS OF IT!) is what is required to ship something from the Earth to the Moon. These articles blithely mention 'solar energy' except that they very

Energy (and LOTS OF IT!) is what is required to ship something from the Earth to the Moon. These articles blithely mention 'solar energy' except that they very carefully don't examine just how much energy would be required. We'd need hundreds of square miles of solar collectors to get anywhere near the amount of energy required. If that was easy we'd already have that happening today.