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  "- by 2020 50% of all electric will be generated by non-fossil fuels. 2025 80%."

  "- 2025 be the #1 export of oil and coal"
That's interesting, especially seeing these goals being put together!

  "- Infrastructure 7% GDP"
How did you come to this number? Keep in mind that infrastructure costs depend on a lot of factors, like expropriation of private property, building new infrastructure and up-keeping the existent one in a number of more or less accessible places, development of new infrastructure technology and a lot more. China got a lot of these for almost free: it can afford to expropriate at ridiculous prices, it builds infrastructure with cheap labor and materials (bought at home market prices), it got its hands on new technology cheaply from abroad through various tricks (versus developing it from scratch), and so on. There's a lot to talk about infrastructure and resources allocated to it, and 7% may or may not be the answer.

  "- Moon by 2030 a sustainable colony."

  "- Mars by 2040 a sustainable colony."

  "- Mars by 2050 100,000 people"
Moon and Mars are not fit to be inhabited by humans (for their gravitation being inappropriate, if nothing else).

  "- Population 500,000 by 2040"
You wanted to say 500,000,000 maybe?



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