I lived out there for a long time, in California City, taught all over Kern County. Saw a lot of wind and solar go up on long drives. The blinking red at night is surreal. And the oceans of black solar panels make huge deserts feel weirdly small.

Saw housing prices go way up too. Always wondered if that was connected to the renewables.

In any case it really did feel like a strange realistic future of renewables and home depot houses and military complexes on an off-world colony that was only partially terraformed. Or a previously inhabitable planet with a degraded environment.

The most sci-fi place I've ever lived by far. We loved it. Glad to see it make the news for something other than Kevin McCarthy.