Prediction: China will get molten-salt reactors first

Well, duh!  Of course they will.  They have the means, the motive, and the will to do it.  If we were to get into a "moon shot" race with them for producing a commercial design, they'd probably win it anyway.  They are ahead and we still haven't gotten the will, and maybe not even the means to win the race.  But we have an even bigger motive than they do.  If they win this, we are in a lot of trouble.  This fact has undoubtedly not sunk in amongst our glorious leaders.  Our leaders are just not very bright, you know.

Why would we be in a lot of trouble?  The Chinese would replace the Saudis as the low cost producer of energy.  Instead of everybody paying the Saudis for their oil, they'd pay the Chinese for their MSR tech.  After all, the Chinese have made it very plain that they intend to enforce the intellectual property should they acquire it.  Make no mistake, they will acquire it.  We proved it in the lab.

If our glorious leaders had the snap, they'd have developed it immediately.  Instead we paid the Saudis and got the terrorists and now we are paying for that too.  I mean, how stupid can you get?

So the Chinese will get super rich off this, and we get relatively poorer.  There you have it.  They will outclass us at every turn.  The only reason the Saudis haven't done it is that they don't have the brains to do something like that.  That might sound "racist", but truth is truth.  Only in recent years has the Islamic world attempted to politically exploit their oil wealth.  They simply don't have the snap to do it.  The Chinese do.  Facts are facts.

The reality of this outcome just hit me.  We may have to throw a "hail Mary" pass in order to try to rescue ourselves from our past folly.  Just because we were dealing with dummies doesn't mean we will always be dealing with dummies.  This is going to cost us dearly.

What "hail Mary" pass?  One of two possibilities.  Cold fusion or aneutronic fusion.  Either one may work, or neither may work.  We'd better hope that at least one of them works, or start learning to speak Chinese.