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Ted Turner's Solar Mission
By CNBC.com | 02 Nov 2007 | 02:38 PM ET
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Entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner has had exquisite green credentials for some time.

So, perhaps its no surprise that a man who made a career out of being a trailblazer has become an outspoken proponent of solar energy as a viable alternative fuel.

Turner bought a stake in the New Jersey-based company, DT Solar, and is bullish about the industry's prospects.

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**FILE** CNN founder Ted Turner reacts as he speaks about Gerald Levin, the former CEO of AOL Time Warner, while speaking at the CNN 25 World Report Conference in Atlanta in this Wednesday, June 1, 2005 file photo.

"It's gonna’ be the biggest business opportunity the world has ever seen,"  he says. Turner, for the record, is not a proponent of corn-based ethanol.

CNBC's Jane Wells visited Turner in Atlanta to talk about his big bet on solar.

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