Harvest System’s technology harvests and recycles waste heat in order to reduce operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective and scalable way. Currently, the company is focused on the $4.6 billion dollar restaurant industry, where the platform acts as a drop-in replacement for traditional water heaters. Using a novel attachable heat reclaimer, waste heat is captured directly from commercial cooking appliances, such as ovens and fryers, and stored in a hot water tank without affecting safety and performance and resulting in an average 2 year payback. The technology was born out of a $1.7M research collaboration between McMaster University, Pizza Pizza Limited, and Thermal Electronics Corporation.