I don't normally have my dupes in suits 80% of the time so it's a bit higher for me normally. Having whatever cooling system you were going to use on the vent instead of near the source of production will work much, much better. That is nothing, and the oxygen will insta-cool as it emerges from the pipes. At a target temperature of say, 50 degrees, you will be adding about 5KDTU into the system by piping hot oxygen in directly. With, say, 12 dupes, you are looking at 144kg/cycle of raw oxygen heading in. The amount of oxygen that goes into supporting unsuited dupes is usually tiny at most 20% of their daily oxygen intake of 60kg. Other designs are certainly possible and viable. Ends in the electrolyzers, sneaks through the base before. I just cool everything now though, with just one cool water stream. Thermal exchange between oxygen and hydrogen is not much of an issue, gravity separates them nicely. Took me quite some time to arrive at my current design, so if you want to try something new, I can recommend this. For example, you need to optimize your base for airflow. It actually works well, but it comes with some nice new challenges. You'll need a good cooling loop to keep everything cool though instead of just spreading the cool oxygen around. I suppose that's less than what you'd spend running air pumps though and even though you need more electrolyzers, you don't need the pumps. If you are keeping your oxygen at 30 C ( so you can grow plants ) that 95 C hydrogen is going to dump its heat into the oxygen and cool down to 30 C itself, so that's an additional 17,472 DTUs of cooling you need, or about 30 watts you'll need to spend running the AT. There is no absolute limit, but the further it has to disperse, the slower it moves so you end up over pressurizing the electrolyzer and it doesn't work as much, so you need more of them. If you find it a concern, just cool only below the electrolyzers and place them near the top of the base.
As to cooling, that loss does not matter much. Dispersion needs a bit of finesse, but it is not really a problem.
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