Because capitalism is the issue.

What's so interesting to me is that in spite of the city's green infrastructure, the inequities persist.

Solar PV has the potential to be a tool for a free society, because it can be decentralized. If it all belongs to the utility, the state or the landlords, it's not decentralized and not used as the tool it could be.

Massive fields of solar panels are centralized in their infrastructure - they have a single outlet onto the electrical grid, they are all maintained and administered in the same way, etc. - so they fit well into a centralized social power structure.

Same as farms for the past 5,000 years.

Decentralization would mean something like rooftop solar and household batteries. But even then the manufacturers could hold centralized power; you would have to be able to mix-and-match between manufacturers in usage and repair.

car revs like a V10

<_< solar my ass

Because to some extent we still have won some fights. Right now, even a cyberpunk setting is not realistic to imagine that we are still burning fossil fuels in 50 years.

The fact that even Texas nowadays, a nation that considers that burning coal is a synonym of masculinity, is installing more and more renewable capacities. Tell you that this is something that even in a hyper-capitalistic society is going to happen.

Even with cartoon villains in power, they don't manage to prevent that trend.

Solar panels are a dystopian nightmare, the nuclear energy sector told me so.