Beutler Corp. President Rick Wylie is banking that the AquaCool will help revive the fortunes of the Sacramento-based climate-control contractor, hard hit by the housing downturn. The company, making its first venture into manufacturing air conditioners, has spent $250,000 to develop the AquaCool, Wylie said. Paul Kitagaki/pkitagaki@sacbee.com

Sacramento’s Beutler Corp. pins hopes on water-cooled air conditioners

Green tech doesn't have to be new tech. And executives at Sacramento's 61-year-old Beutler Corp. are hoping that insight will lead the huge climate-control contractor out of the wreckage of the real-estate collapse....(more)