Build something useful. Prove that it works. Share in the value you create.
Some of the best solutions begin in a machine shop, calving barn, pump house or ranch kitchen. The Guild welcomes all kinds of useful heat-recovery and heat-reuse inventions, not just one product or installation. Builders can submit ideas without using GitHub.
Trade skills welcome
From heat exchangers and hydronic plumbing to grain drying, greenhouse heating, workshops, homes, water heating and entirely new applications.
Simple submissions
Start with a plain-language description, a sketch, or a photo. Our team can handle the technical documentation.
Potential rewards
The proposed reward path is cooperative review followed by acceptance and publication of an eligible design on the cooperative website. Reward amounts, funding and payment terms still require approval.
Make waste heat useful.
Agriculture and livestock
Heat recovery for stock water, greenhouses, feed and grain drying, barns and other farm applications.
Homes and businesses
Practical inventions for space heating, hot water, workshops and commercial facilities.
New heat-reuse ideas
Manifolds, exchangers, controls, thermal storage, modular equipment and applications nobody has thought of yet.
Every proposed solution would need to satisfy cooperative guidelines, including applicable safety, performance and documentation requirements, before being accepted for listing. The guidelines and reward policy are still being developed.
No GitHub. No complicated process.
Tell us your idea
Send a simple description of the problem and your proposed improvement.
Cooperative review
Check the submission against published cooperative guidelines for safety, usefulness and documentation.
Accept and list
Qualifying designs can be accepted and published on the cooperative website with agreed attribution and rights.
Reward the builder
An eligible accepted-and-listed contribution earns its defined reward under the approved program terms, with cash or Bitcoin options when available.
Have a practical idea?
We are gathering interest while the cooperative develops its review guidelines and reward policy. Tell us what source of heat you want to put to work, the problem you want to solve, and whether you have an idea, sketch or prototype. Please do not send confidential invention details or sensitive information in your first message; we can discuss a private review process first.
Email your idea or interestThe proposed program would reward eligible builders when their work meets cooperative guidelines and is accepted for publication on the cooperative website. No guaranteed reward, open application program, or intellectual-property transfer is created by an inquiry.