Originally Posted by queerpunk
Don't you think that by feeding the dead to the living and still somehow harvesting energy from humans, the machines in The Matrix are violating the laws of thermodynamics?
Apparently you missed the caveat in Morpheus's explanation...
Originally Posted by Morpheus
The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120 V battery and over 25.000 BTU's of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the energy they would ever need.
The real question is, if they had the fusion, why would they even need all the elaborate machinery and such to enslave humanity? Or is that their actual goal, and not just a means to an end?