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Professor Jayant Baliga: The Man with the Worlds Smallest Carbon Footprint!


While many of us try to do several things in order to reduce our footprint, we are not anywhere near Jayant Baliga, the green professor at North Carolina State University who also . Using his academic skills in electrical engineering, this man created a power-saving switch that saves an amazing 1.4 trillion (yes, thats trillion) pounds of CO2 from getting mixed up in our dear environment every year! Not only this, but this green device also saves around $300 billion.

So Baligas contribution to the world is a global saving of 125 gigawatts of power per annum, through which ! One would need to grow many million trees to have a footprint this small. Although many of us benefit from his works, he is still unknown to many.

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