why didn't they just make batteries?

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 25 May 2012, 23:33, archived)

Because making the batteries uses more energy than they'd get out of them.

( Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 25 May 2012, 23:37, archived)

But there's that bit where Morpheus holds up batteries and says that's what the Matrix has turned people into.
Except the batteries are actually only imaginary batteries made by being imagined by people, who are being used as batteries....
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 26 May 2012, 0:34, archived)