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I would think the solution wouldn't be that simple. To power all the machines on the planet with solar power, they would have had to construct an array of incredible magnitude, that would only ever be able to ensare sunlight for around 10-14 hours per day depending on the earths tilt/position at whatever time of year it happened to be. So, a planatery scale array would have had to been constructed. I think this would have been fine if the machines hadn't been a lot more primitive at the start of the war. If one studied the chronology of the man/machine war, aka The Second Renaissance, it would become clear that the machines just weren't advanced enough to engage in a project like a planetary solar array miles above the earth. I mean, the whole reason the symbiotic relationship started was because of the timing of Operation Darksky (errr, that's not the name but it's something like that, I can't remember the real name right now). From what I gathered from watching the Seconfd Renaissance, the machines were losing for a long time, as they weren't smart enough to gain any sort of advantage. Once the machine started to win, man got desperate and formulated a plan. This plan was out of pure desperation and nothing more. It was a bad plan. I think after this happened the machines went into their own sort of desperation mode, and went for the fastest way out of the situation. So, they had been studying the human for many years and a solution presented itself, It may have been that they thought about a solar array, but the array plan would have had two glaring problems.
The array would be vulnerable to attack
The array didn't ALSO remove the enemy.
The human battery plan is clearly and logically the better plan, and the machine's logic circuits would choose it 100% of the time.
Not to mention the story would have much less impact if man hadn't created the problem in the first place.
Last edited by Sedai; 02-12-04 at 03:06 PM.