Complex sentence: Ideally, the system must be very adaptive in this regard-for example, by cooling air before pumping on summer days; also, it must be engineered to avoid inefficiency, such as wasteful pressure changes caused by inadequate piping diameter.
Split into simpler sentences: Ideally, the system must be very clever--for example, by cooling air before pumping on summer days. It must be engineered to avoid inefficiency, such as wasteful pressure changes caused by inadequate piping diameter.