Renewable energy cheaper than coal? Google says it's possible

According to Reuters, Google may be close to making renewable energy that is cheaper than coal power.

Google Inc is closing in on its goal of producing renewable energy at a price cheaper than coal, the company's so-called green energy czar, the engineer in charge of the project, said on Tuesday.
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Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl said the odds of success had gone up in the last year or so from a long shot to a real possibility of demonstrating working technology in a few years.

"It is even odds, more or less, I would say," he said in an interview with Reuters. "In, you know, three years, we could have multiple megawatts of plants out there."

Don't start betting on it yet, though. Wiehl says that the odds for failure are still pretty high. But isn't it cool to see a company actually go out and try to do something about this?