In theory, the cost of energy used in manufacturing and logistics is covered by the purchase price.

How will they prevent theft by pirates?

The magnetic field changes ~15 days before an earthquake happens.

Stuff moving around in the outer core changes the magnetic field.

So looking for patterns in the data from cosmic ray detectors can tell us something about what’s going on in the core, which is predictive of when an earthquake is about to happen . . . somewhere.