Guy Immega is a retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, living in Vancouver, Canada. His company, Kinetic Sciences Inc. built experimental robots for the International Space Station, robots to clean up nuclear waste and miniature fingerprint sensors for cell phones. In 2005, he sold the corporate intellectual property to a Californian company.
Over the years 1980-1985, Guy was the Renewable Energy Coordinator for the Province of British Columbia (Canada). He contracted an engineering survey of small-hydroelectric sites and organized the first wind and solar installations feeding the electrical grid.
During the period of 1966-68, Guy served in the US Peace Corps in Niger, Africa. He was stationed in N'Guigmi, on the shores of Lake Chad. He worked on a Peace Corps medical team vaccinating Toubou nomads in a local smallpox epidemic in 1967. He undertook a survey of schistosomiasis disease in Lake Chad. While on Lake Chad, he came into contact with the Buduma people.
Upon retiring in 2005, Guy published an e-book Ancient Egypt’s Lost Legacy? The Buduma Culture of Lake Chad. This book describes the remote Buduma people in the northwest region of the lake in Niger, who maintained a traditional way of life, fishing and cattle herding. Wide distribution of this book ultimately resulted contacts with the Lake Chad Basin Commission.
At the International Conference on Lake Chad in Abuja (February 26-28th, 2018), Guy presented his engineering proposal: “Ubangi – Lake Chad Water Transfer Using the Solar Option.” Saving Lake Chad and food security for millions are Guy’s goals.