Matrix question

[avram]

Something that just came to me: According to The Matrix, the machines need to keep humans enslaved for energy, the power generated by the human body. (The single stupidest thing about the movie.) So I’m wondering — what power source does Zion and its ships run on? Do they have volunteer human powerpacks? Or are they running off of geothermal power and batteries? If the latter, couldn’t the machines use that too?

(Man, what a butt-stupid premise.)

Of course, the machines are just using the humans as a short-term solution till they can get practical commercial-scale fusion power working.

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Actually, in the first Matrix movie, Morpheus says that the machines use human batteries along with nuclear power.

[avram]

Ah, OK. Of course, that’s a bit like saying “For gravity, we use the mass of this here planet, and this small dog.”

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Yes. I guess we're also assuming that Morpheus knows what he's talking about.

I always conceived of the Matrix like a concentration camp. Economically irrational, but ideologically satisfying for the machines.