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Is there a present competition between coal and oil, and between corn, as a source of power?

Yes . There is competition, but it is a competition that does not harm either side: the coal, oil, and natural gas side, and the corn side, as it extracts power from its furnaces (reactors).

The uranium atom was used, along with its sisters, not long ago, in special furnaces, in which the atoms split and heat emerged from their splitting. This heat turns water into steam. This steam drives the turbines, and these spin wheels with wires on them, known as electric generators. These, in their rotation, cut between the poles of large magnetic fields, thus generating large amounts of electricity in the wires. Electricity is a tremendous power in this industrial age and it is the cleanest power.

In this way, coal, oil, or petroleum is burned to transform water into steam, turning turbines, and these turn the wheels... exactly as we described in oil.

At the beginning, the cost of corn in producing electricity was much higher than the cost of coal, oil, or gas.

⏺Coal and oil are emptied in one century, which may increase to two centuries. As for corn, it advances knowledge and may extend its lifespan.
To a few billion years.

⏺The United States extracts from the corn half of its power needs, before the end of this twentieth century, and will extract from it all of its increasing needs when
Mid-twentieth century.

But science has advanced in these fifteen years
In the past, the atom made it catch up, then catch up, until today it almost overtakes, from an economic standpoint, fossil fuels in the electricity industry.

In this matter, we also rely on the opinions of specialists.

It was stated in the report of the Atomic Energy Commission, that
We mentioned that she submitted the following to President Kennedy:

(Atomic furnaces (reactors) will catch up with fossil fuels (coal and oil) in terms of competition between them in power production, in the next seventy years (I mean from 1970 onwards).
In fact, it has now actually caught up with it, i.e. fossil fuels, in many places far from sources of coal and oil.

Even the countries that are close to coal and oil, and even those that have coal and oil, have begun to make preparations for the coming time, when the cost of power comes from corn. The cost of power comes from coal and oil, they have begun to make preparations for the coming time.

Is there a nation above the United States that knows the future of industries, and is more careful about the dollar and the cent, and the penny and the penny?

In 2000, half of America’s power was made from corn:

The United States expects, at the end of this present century, the twentieth century, that half of the energy used in the United States will come from corn, and this calculation includes the expected huge increase in consumption with the progress of the country’s economies year after year.

This calculation, made by the Atomic Energy Commission there, also stipulates that it will not be until the middle of the twenty-first century that the power used in the United States will have come almost entirely from the atom.

- The largest atomic station in the world:

As part of the United States' initiative to prepare for the future, Consolidated Edison Co. in New York has announced the construction of a station that produces electricity from corn. Its cost is $175 million. It was built and operated in 1970, producing one million kilowatts, making it the largest corn station in the world.

And where do you find it?
In the city center. This is because the affairs of these atomic stations do not pose any danger to the city. Today, it has become completely safe from them.

Does the atom empty out, just as oil and coal do, over time?

And the answer. Yes .
Everything is mortal. Every stock on earth is empty unless it is consumed.
The current source of the atom, the largest and most abundant, is uranium. There are two types of uranium: one is radioactive and is capable of being splintered on its own, and we call it uranium 235 (the number here is its atomic weight), and the other type is not capable of being split except in the presence of radioactive uranium, and it is called uranium 338 (the number is also its atomic weight).

The uranium found in nature is a mixture of the two, and it contains about 719 t. One percent of the radioactive, and the remaining 28.99 percent, of the non-radioactive. Then a third, very few.

We use the splitting of non-radioactive uranium - which is the most abundant on Earth - with radioactive uranium, so that we get from the splitting of its atoms the energy that we convert into electricity.

But this radioactive uranium may not come to the end of this century until it has emptied of its ores in the ground. For this reason, scientists used furnaces that transform the non-radioactive uranium itself into a radioactive element that is easily split, thus facilitating the production of electricity from it. We will not go into detail about that.

Man is trying to benefit from every atom of radioactive and non-radioactive uranium, and of elements other than uranium, such as radioactive particles, which have a cleavage that produces force in the form of electricity.

All of these are efforts by which man clings as long as he lives, and according to him as a whole, to the sources of forces that created this civilization for him. Without them, it collapses, and after its collapse, man returns to relying on his own muscle, and the muscle of animals such as a camel, a horse, and a donkey.

But uranium and its two types, thrium, thrium quasi, and every radioactive element whose ores are available in the ground, have a day or days in which they are all exhausted. Just as coal runs out and oil runs out.