Funnily enough, I watched it the other day. Morpheus mentions that the machines use a combination of “human batteries” and fusion. First time it stuck out - hum

Funnily enough, I watched it the other day. Morpheus mentions that the machines use a combination of “human batteries” and fusion. First time it stuck out - humans purely for energy purposes seems daft with access to efficient fusion. Growing and harvesting humans seems like a lot of overhead in comparison. Maybe that was what was left of the original “matrix as creativity farm” concept. As I said, first time it stuck out so most people, including me at one time, must have just took it at face value. Still love the film to this day though. Sounds sad but had goosebumps at the end when Neo actually turns out to be the one.