Not having encountered such content and only imagining from this document, it sounds to me that this genre could be also described as <i>sparsepunk</i>.<p>People probably come and go on low-resitance bikes and private EVs, not on sushi-packed elevators and public transportation; common buildings would be at most 4-stories tall, not 120 average; no weekly downpours, let alone biannual thunderstorms demolishing houses; etc.<p>PV installations require large, flat, open, dry, unused land that don't support any residential or agricultural needs, abundant and readily available, easily proportionate to population density. Off-grid care-free lifestyles inherently require massive private property, and therefore sparsity of living, while habitable land is a scarce resource in most parts on this planet, developed or not.<p>There's a list of countries/regions by population density on Wikipedia[1]. It can be eye opening.<p>According to that list, Hong Kong has density of 6,725 person/sqkm. Meanwhile, yearly solar panel power production on Earth somewhere between 500G to 1TWh per sqkm. (1TWh / (365*6725)) = 400 Wh/person/day. You're not showering every day with that amount. But that's extreme, so let's see, it's 233 person/sqkm in Qatar, which translates to 11kWh/day allotment, which might be enough for personal EVs if they covered the entire land from border to border with solar panels.<p>I think it's worth mentioning sometimes, that "buy a rural house and put up some PV" lifestyle, and Sci-Fi novels based on it by extension, isn't something scalable out to current 8b population of Earth, but it's something that rely on either ultradense megalopolis to secure and contain working classes, or American abundance of land.<p>1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...</a>