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We can still have steam. And punk.
Honestly solar steampunk with big crazy arrays of glass lenses to focus sunlight onto tanks sounds like a hell of an aethstetic.
Like this?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/a-tower-of-molten-salt-will-deliver-solar-power-after-sunset-2650273366
But with more brass and some elaborate power distribution network involving focusing beams of light and pupming water in place of electricity