Dr. Johnson Interview on Atlanta’s 11Alive News
11Alive’s Danielle Nottingham shares Dr. Lonnie Johnson’s journey from segregated Mobile, AL to global innovation:
Dr. Johnson Named to Forbes List of Top 250 Innovators
Congratulations to JTEC founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson, just named number 173 on the Forbes list of Top 250 Innovators. INNOVATION is the grease in the economic engine, the sparkle that keeps culture fresh and the key ingredient in nearly every billion-dollar fortune. To kick off our yearlong series of special reports celebrating America’s 250th birthday, […]
CNN10 Meet the inventor of the Super Soaker, whose next idea could help our warming planet
Aired on CNN10 2/2/26 Coy Wire interviews Dr. Johnson for a CNN10 segment celebrating Black History Month.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
JTEC Energy Wins “Energy Production Innovation Award” In 2024 CleanTech Breakthrough Awards Program
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, […]
JTEC Energy Named to TIME’s List of America’s Top GreenTech Companies 2024
(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 […]
Investors Business Daily: How Super Soaker Inventor Lonnie Johnson Doused The Competition
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 […]