The fact that Night City is solar powered is really interesting. If you play the game, the solar panels are visible from afar from many vantage points across the city. And if you visit it, it takes forever to traverse. It’s pre-sense is huge.
What’s so interesting to me is that in spite of the city’s green infrastructure, the inequities persist.
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.