Author: Susan Nicholson

JTEC Wins Cleantech Breakthrough Award 2026

For the third year in a row, JTEC Energy was honored with a Cleantech Breakthrough Award.  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 results of the 3rd annual CleanTech Breakthrough Awards program, spotlighting the breakthrough clean […]

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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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