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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Atlanta startup founded by inventor Lonnie Johnson raises $30M to develop new energy source

By Zach Armstrong for Atlanta Inno – read full article here.   JTEC Energy Inc. Founder Lonnie Johnson, left, and President and CEO Michael McQuary. Photo: Byron E. Small Lonnie Johnson, former NASA engineer and inventor of the Super Soaker children’s toy, is one step closer to commercializing a new source of renewable energy. Johnson […]

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