What are you cooking in that huge microwave

Microwave because space based solar rectennas are awesome and hilarious

Fusion bc that number is the biggest

Wind Power, because I have a huge stockpile of aether crystals and a lot of faith.

Solar looks like a giant death ray pointed up to fire at God so naturally I choose that

I'm all in on that cleeeean coaaal.

I'm spamming thousands of wind turbines all over the place

Wind. I like my power plants like I like my men: clean, petite, and it takes dozens to get the job done

I like fusion so I'm gonna go with the one on the bottom left

Fusion - It's shaped like a U. I want a power district that reads "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Bottom center. Orbital solar is going to be the energy source of fully automated luxury gay space communism. Especially if we can't get fusion to work (there's no guarantee that reactor based fusion will ever be feasible, the laws of physics don't owe it to us).

I liked putting little wind turbines on hills

That and the solar death ray

Solar + Arcologies

Solar because it takes up so much space that I can stop worrying about this liberal zoning nonsense or "make a police station to reduce crime" bullshit and focus on just being one huge solar farm.

Hydro since it looks like a lego and I'd imagine I can build lots of them.

Coal

is for Gas.

Sure it's expensive, but how do you expect to beat Majin Buu without the Fusion power?

Oil, but it's okay because I purchase a tree for every carbon ton emittted or something

Coal, because I'm developing and we all need to start somewhere. But that shit is getting yeeted at the first opportunity that presents itself.

I love that this game gave you so many choices of power plants, was mostly correct about their tradeoffs*, treated pollution as a thing that people actually might care about, and made room for some rando pie-in-the-sky idea with microwave power.

*Solar and wind power suck in SimCity 2000, but they legitimately were bad until the 2010s, and I can't really fault them for failing to predict that. It also overstates the chances of nuclear meltdowns by an order of magnitude (but whatever these games overstate the chances of Godzilla attacks too), and misses the extreme variability in how good hydro power is based on the site (which would be so fiddly, and I can't blame them, though it's funny that the best hydro site in SC2K is a long series of rapids, which is like the opposite of what you want).