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:
Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.
From AJC Article by Drew Kann, 11/30/25. Hall of Fame inventor Lonnie Johnson has an idea to turn wasted heat into clean electricity. Inventor Lonnie Johnson stands with his Super Soaker water guns at JTEC Energy on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, in Atlanta. Johnson, a former NASA engineer, is currently working on a new energy […]
Mike McQuary Named as a 2024 Georgia Titan 100
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 […]
Dr. Lonnie Johnson Named as a 2024 Business Alabama Lifetime Achievement Winner
Johnson, Logan, Rane and Stitts are 2024 Business Alabama Lifetime Achievement winners The 5 will be honored at the Business Alabama Awards in March Excerpted from an article in Business Alabama. By Business Alabama Staff -January 26, 2024 Business Alabama will honor five distinguished people as Lifetime Achievement recipients at the Business Alabama Awards on […]
JTEC Energy Moves to New Location on the Atlanta Beltline
ATLANTA, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Cleantech hydrogen energy company JTEC Energy, Inc. announced that it has moved to the mixed-use Lee + White development on the Atlanta Beltline. In August, JTEC completed an extensive renovation to house its new offices, laboratory, and machine shop at the adaptive reuse project in Atlanta’s West End. Commercial Realtors Cori Nuttall and Willie Candler with Lee & Associates secured the […]
Canary Media Interview With Dr. Johnson
This billion-dollar-selling toy was inspired by heat pumps Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson talks to Canary Media about the toy’s origin story and what he’s working on now as a climatetech entrepreneur. 31 January 2023 By Mike Munsell for Canary Media An early Super Soaker prototype (lonniejohnson.com) Canary Media’s Climate Meets Culture column explores the intersection of energy, climate […]
JTEC Energy Adds Glenn Eisman to Technical Advisory Board
JTEC Energy Press Release ATLANTA, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — JTEC Energy, Inc. announced that Dr. Glenn Eisman has joined its Technical Advisory Board. JTEC Energy was formed in 2020 to finish development and commercialization of the JTEC device, a cleantech energy invention by Dr. Lonnie Johnson that converts waste heat into electricity more efficiently than any machine in history. “JTEC springs […]
Lonnie Johnson Named one of 100 Most Influential Georgians for 2023
Georgia Trend released their list of 100 Most Influential Georgians for 2023. To welcome the new year, Georgia Trend is recognizing 100 influential Georgians for 2023 – a remarkable group — for their impact across the state. As always, we’re spotlighting CEOs, politicians, educational experts and the heads of nonprofits and economic development organizations, among others. Some are very […]
Catching up With… Lonnie Johnson
From an article by Karen Kirkpatrick for Georgia Trend Magazine. Lonnie Johnson is an engineer and inventor who holds more than 100 patents. At JTEC and parent company Johnson R&D, in Atlanta, he leads the development of advances in clean energy and batteries. Photo: EricSunPhotography Lonnie Johnson is an engineer and inventor who holds […]
National Inventors Hall of Fame Announces VoIP and Super Soaker Innovators Among 2022 Class
JTEC Energy is proud to announce that our founder, Dr. Lonnie Johnson, is being inducted this week into the National Inventors Hall of Fame: April 26, 2022 Press Release from the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Read full release here. NORTH CANTON, OH — Five innovation pioneers whose inventions range from cataract surgery to the […]