Author: Susan Nicholson

NASA engineer to bring innovation talk to Portland MLK Day event

Chiara Profenna / oregonlive.com (TNS) When Karanja Crews announced that Super Soaker inventor and NASA engineer Dr. Lonnie Johnson was coming to Portland, excited gasps rippled through a second-grade classroom at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon. ​​​​Just an hour earlier, many of the students had never heard of Johnson. But […]

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The Super Soaker creator’s next big idea? A heat engine that could power the future

Video interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Uatl.com Video Lonnie Johnson changed the world once with the Super Soaker; now he’s aiming higher. Based in Atlanta, the inventor and former NASA engineer is developing a revolutionary heat engine called JTEC that can convert solar heat directly into electricity, helping fight climate change. Johnson shares his journey […]

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JTEC Engineers Develop Open-Source MATLAB/Simulink Toolboxes for LabJack and Alicat Instruments

  JTEC VP of Engineering Julian Bell and Mechanical Engineer Gavin Williamson have developed and publicly released two open-source toolboxes for MATLAB/Simulink: one for LabJack T-series data acquisition interfaces, and one for Alicat mass flow and pressure controllers. Both toolboxes take advantage of Simulink’s drag‑and‑drop graphical programming environment to enable rapid integration with these hardware […]

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JTEC Energy Winner of 2025 CleanTech Breakthrough’s “Energy Production Innovation Award”

Prestigious Annual Awards Program Recognizes Companies and Products Driving Innovation in the Global Clean Technology Industry ATLANTA, April 10, 2025 – Cleantech hydrogen energy company JTEC Energy, Inc. today announced it is the recipient of the “Energy Production Innovation Award” in the second annual CleanTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by CleanTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market […]

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Global Clean Technology Innovators Honored in 2025 CleanTech Breakthrough Awards Program

LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CleanTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout climate and clean technology companies, products and services around the globe, today announced the winners of the second annual CleanTech Breakthrough Awards program. The size of the global clean technology sector is worth $2.5T USD […]

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JTEC Energy Awarded on TIME’s America’s Top GreenTech Companies 2025 List

PRESS RELEASE ATLANTA, March 27, 2025  — Cleantech hydrogen energy company JTEC Energy has been named to TIME’s list of America’s Top GreenTech Companies 2025. This prestigious award is presented by TIME and Statista Inc., the leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The award list was announced on March 25th, 2025, and can be viewed […]

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