Outer space of The Matrix

[QuiDormit]

Rarebit was investigating an alternate power source which would put the machines as master by choice rather than necessity. His ideas got shot down by the wachowskis or Chadwick so it never played out.

I think that this is one of those breaks in the movie that blur between the lines between what we know as real and what is real in the movie.

I guess that WBros' and Chadwick shot down Rare's ideas for alternate power sources, because it's not just raw energy (as in the kind needed to turn on a lightbulb) that the machines were getting from humans. I think that they also used the humans as a cluster (more processing power, yay). Mostly, though, I think the machines used humans for their emotional power.

I think that the machines/programs were able to "feel" things through the humans. Happiness, sadness, anger, etc etc. In this way, the power that the machines received from the humans was far greater than just battery power.