Yesterday, the Chinese dropped the core module into the world’s first commercial small modular nuclear reactor.

We should actually be green around the gills at the news, nauseous with disgust that they can eat our lunch this way.

Chinese propaganda organs were churning out the good news about the project’s progress…

…which was, no doubt, funded in large part by Biden Inflation Reduction Action tax credits and subsidies allowing American climate cultists to buy Chinese solar and wind products.

China successfully installed a small modular nuclear reactor.

It will generate clean electricity to meet the needs of 526,000 households.

-No emissions
-Runs 24/7
-Uses a small amount of landhttps://t.co/sTxuokmLAl pic.twitter.com/9gu09D5B8p

— Brian Gitt (@BrianGitt) August 10, 2023

It’s going to be a tiny, mighty little bugger when it finally fires off, unlike, say, those massive towers going up off the Massachusetts coast.

For gulping up all that area (166,886 acres) and creating all the heartache, a completed Vineyard Wind 1 is rated for a nameplate capacity of 804MW (62 turbines x 13MW ea). And remember, being wind, that’s a “could” and “when.” It’s not reliable, predictable or schedulable for heavy use periods aka “when you need power most.” Wind blows or it doesn’t. The presumptions are that this ginormous installation will provide enough power for 400,000 MA homes and be ugly af.

Once it’s up and running, this little nuclear reactor, on the other hand, is like the Energizer Bunny – it keeps going, and going, and going. On a miniscule amount of the space needed for that variable wind farm.

Speaking of “space” needed for power generation, and not to be overlooked; that other brilliant renewable scheme Green types keep forcing down our throats takes a bit of acreage, but for far less return.

The onshore small modular reactor is compact, efficient, clean as a whistle, and does it ever pack a reliable power punch.

…As the world’s first land-based commercial small modular pressurized water reactor developed by China National Nuclear Corporation, Linglong One, with a power generation capacity of 125 megawatts, can generate 1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year once completed, which can meet the need of 526,000 households, and is equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 880,000 tonnes, or planting 7.5 million trees.

With the way the Chinese have worked their design, the reactor is also adaptable for other uses, and China is looking to that versatility to further bolster their expansionist plans in the Pacific theater and Africa.

…Once completed, the reactor will produce one billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually to power 526,000 households. In addition to providing carbon-free energy, the reactor will provide additional benefits such as urban heating and cooling, steam production, and seawater desalination. This is expected to fresh water in areas where conventional reactors are not feasible.

The technology has potential offshore applications in disputed areas like the South China Sea. The country is also looking at deploying SMRs on small islands with relatively smaller populations of a few thousand people, where they will also be able to serve as a freshwater source.

The technology could also be exported to countries that are part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and China’s neighbors in Asia, such as the Philippines and Indonesia, with multiple islands in their geography.

Imagine – using truly helpful and innovative technology strategically – we used to be good at that, didn’t we? Now the United States focus is on demanding rainbow flags and solar panels on African huts while allowing climate cultists and social justice warriors to turn our own country into a Third World nation.

Gosh, who do you pick? The dumpy gnome lady with a check and a homily, who requires you to give up your fertilizer, farm tractor and the one lightbulb you have in order to cash it, so you can buy food instead of grow it?

Or the friendly looking Winnie-the-Pooh fellow, who comes in and builds a small nuclear reactor so you can have 6 lightbulbs, a computer, cable TV, and recharge your cellphone, spares you the moral lectures, and doesn’t seem to ask for much at all in return?

There’s no contest.

We are so screwed.