Can you help me come up with a few things to compare and contrast fossil fuels, wind, solar and water energy?

Think of a glass of water; you drink it and it's done
(like fossil fuels).

Even though they're really useful and
make up the highest percentage of energy use these days, they're vanishing, and there
are going to be no more of them if the populotion uses them every day.  Even by using
them you're destroying the enviorment so much: look at the reaction of burning methane:
CH4+2O2=CO2+2H2O+energy

You can see that CO2 is
being emitted and in order to stop that, there is no solution.  Even if anyone wants to
make some fossil fuels they need millions of years; technology is trying to make it
artificially, but does quality play a role? Yes it does, because the productivity of the
fossil fuels made by a chemistry laboratory isn't really high enough
quality.

So now imagine you have a glass of water,and you
live near a ocean, and perhaps you can drink the water, but would you be able to drink
the whole water at a period of time.  The answer is no.

So
wind power, solar power, and water energy (potential water energy) are the keys for the
future.Wind energy uses the power of the wind which makes a big fan rotate and it's
connected to a big electomagnet which spins and produces electricity, solar power is a
bit more difficult.  It uses the photovoltaic effect to produce electricity from the
solar energy of the sun, which is able to produce a lot of energy per meter
square.

Hope this helps for a little
bit.