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

[batyatoon]

See, this is exactly why I was waiting for the moment in Revolutions where we'd find out that the whole they-need-humans-for-power wasn't true either, and the machines are only keeping them around as vengeance.

Because it was really almost the only part of what we learned in The Matrix that wasn't revealed as untrue in Reloaded, and it never made sense in the first place...