In past a few centuries, the main natural resources are coal, petroleum and natural gas, which are applied in whole world more and more but cannot be regenerated. Today’s scientists focus on some new natural resource and hope them became the successor of that old natural resource. This article is to answer the question that which one is the most hopeful one, water power, nuclear, solar power or wind power. The method is to compare the number of publications production between the old nature resources and new nature resources and find out the rule of development. The data sources are EI Compandex from 1969 to 2005 and SCI from 1995 to 2005. The analysis is based on the relevant data about each kind of resource, such as total number of papers and their region distribution, international coauthored number, this article analysis the regularity in the number, distribution and trend of development. At the same time, this article also examines the data regarding international cooperation publications to discuss the role of collaborations in the resource field development.