system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Matrix] Why don't the machines just use nuclear or geothermal?
gpt
The Matrix itself is the point; the machines wanted to create a world where humans could live peacefully and happily so they made a virtual one, as an alternative to continuing a war that would end in one side being exterminated. 

The fact that it generates *some* power is just gravy.