The explosion, which flattened 36,000 tonnes of material, lasted less than a minute and was streamed live online by Demolition firm Coleman and Company.
For those who chose to watch the demolition online there were some technological gripes.
Amateur videos of demolition work in Mecca posted online show a dangerous lack of security precautions.
Global Times, a state-run populist newspaper, published an online commentary in June criticizing Shenyang's demolition of a stadium built in 2003 at a cost of $125 million and its erection of glossier sites for next year's games.
But an online game in which a family fights off a demolition crew with slippers and bullets has hooked Chinese internet users.
The men took enormous pride in the outpost they built, and they can now go online and watch videotape of it being blown up by an American demolition team.
Kieran Conaty, project director for the demolition project, said in a Coleman & Company video posted online in December that RWE knew it was the first time the company had dismantled a power station.
Based on the statistics of civil rights activism-related posts from the Tianya online community in the "Annual Report on Social Mentality of China (2012 2013)", forced demolition incidents have occupied 20.1%% of China's online civil rights activism discourse.
Slum comedy becomes online video hit Jump to media player Locals film their own dark comedy about area slated for demolition.
He vowed in an online posting to take revenge for the loss of his badge, saying he would use "every bit of small-arms training, demolition, ordnance and survival training I've been given" to bring "warfare" to the LAPD.
Professor Hu Yong, of Peking University's School of Journalism and Communications, said forced demolitions had long been a hot topic, with dramatic and horrifying stories circulating in the media or online.
