Cameron Doepker Built a Better Combi-Furnace and now He’s Adapting it to 100% Hydrogen

Source: David Dodge | · GREEN ENERGY FUTURES · | August 22, 2022

In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.”

Cameron Doepker was inspired after graduating from SAIT in industrial engineering but it was not mice that were the source of his inspiration. 

“I saw a need to provide a solution that would be highly efficient at both furnace and water heating and would be super simple to install for contractors,” says Doepker, and “It would save space for homeowners eliminating the water heater in their home.”

So he and his wife Jennifer started Gradient Thermal in Calgary, Alberta and they entered into the highly competitive and foreign dominated market of furnace manufacturing.

“Our sync furnace combines forced air space heating and on demand water heating into one. So it only needs one natural gas line and one chimney which is great for retrofit applications, but it also uses just half the space of a typical home heating arrangement,” says Doepker.

And by combining these two function in one Gradient was able to develop a sleek looking combined unit that is 95 per cent efficient.