Question about The Matrix

[KevDODOUBLEG]

OK, this is my favorite movie, and I have seen it 6 times. My question is about how the AI's can get the energy out of the humans. It is impossible for us to generate electricity! The whole concept doesn't make sense!!! Is there a way that this could work???

 

[aUt0eXebat]

actually our bodies do generate engery.... I watched something on it on TLC or the Discovery Channel one time

 

[vi edit]

Your body generates heat when converting calories to energy.

I think the matrix dealt with some sort of electrical energy that was generated in the brain though

 

[glenn1]

How do you think we make electricity at the generating plant? Water is heated and turned to steam (by means of burning coal or other fossil fuels, or nuclear power), the steam provides the power to turn large turbines, which in turn create electricity. Where the heat to create the steam comes from doesn't really matter, one could arguably use body heat to create steam. I know The Matrix is only a movie, but the concept the movie postulated of "using humans for power" seems pretty scientifically sound, even if technically it would likely be a challenge....

 

[KevDODOUBLEG]

But think aboout it, no energy is created, it is just transferred. And there is no sunlight to give the humans energy. The only energy that they got was from the dead humans, but the dead humans shouldn't have even had any energy to begin with, because they gave it to the computers!



<< actually our bodies do generate engery.... I watched something on it on TLC or the Discovery Channel one time >>



In the sense that we transfer what we eat into energy, yes, but as I said before that doesn't seem to work.

 

[NakaNaka]

no they weren't dead they were kept alive to produce the energy .....

 

[Noriaki]

The robots feed the humans.
The humans take that food energy and convert it to heat.
The robots extract that heat energy.

 

[rgwalt]

Dead humans still have the potential to be converted to food for the living humans. What do you think we do with cattle? Same thing. The robots used the heat generated by humans as a power source. They also used "a form of fusion". After a while, the laws of diminishing returns will set in. The robots can't use corpses to feed their livestock indefinitely (second law of thermodynamics applies here).

Ryan

 

[Rakkis]

first of all.. i think the matrix "got energy" from humans by directly accessing our nervous system and in a way stealing the electrical energy from synaptic impulses.

and the energy to sustain the humans came from whatever goop they were feeding them thorugh those tubes.

 

[mrCide]

"They discovered a new form of fusion. All that was required to initiate the reaction was a small electric charge. Throughout human history we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."

Okay?

 

[sandorski]

Our body uses electricity in our nerves, that's why outside electrical pulses will cause our muscles to move. In the Matrix, the bots used both our nerve's electricity and our body heat for their own energy source.

 

[KevDODOUBLEG]

thanks