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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Prestigious Annual Awards Program Recognizes Companies and Products Driving Innovation in the Global Clean Technology Industry LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2024 (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 that Cleantech hydrogen energy company, JTEC Energy, […]
(Atlanta, Georgia, March 12, 2024) – JTEC Energy has been named to TIME’s inaugural list of America’s Top GreenTech Companies 2024. JTEC Energy landed at #94 out of 250 overall ranked companies. This prestigious award was announced on March 5th, 2024, and can be viewed on TIME’s website . Companies headquartered in the United States […]
by Chris Woodyard for Investor’s Business Daily Lonnie Johnson holds more than 130 patents for everything from rechargeable batteries to a wet diaper detector. But patent number 4591071 for a newfangled squirt gun seals Johnson’s place in history like no other. The patent would evolve in further filings into a “pinch trigger hand pump water gun […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Atlanta GA, February 6, 2024 – Titan CEO and headline sponsor Wipfli LLP are pleased to announce Mike McQuary, CEO of JTEC Energy, as a 2024 Georgia Titan 100. The Titan 100 program recognizes Georgia’s Top 100 CEO’s & C-level executives. They are the area’s most accomplished business leaders in their industry […]
JTEC Energy founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson welcomed fellow Black inventor Lanny Smoot into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in January. Walt Disney Imagineer Lanny Smoot Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame Story by Lila Brown for the LA Sentinel. Lanny Smoot in his workshop at The Walt Disney Company. (National Inventors Hall of […]
By Amy Wenk – Staff Reporter, Atlanta Business Chronicle Oct 10, 2023 Updated Oct 10, 2023 2:58pm EDT About seven years ago, when 23 acres of brick warehouses along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail were turned into a new project called Lee + White, it attracted a collection of popular breweries and restaurants. Now, the next wave of tenants […]