Skip the Sun! There's an "atmospheric window" in the IR. If you make a material that emits/absorbs (they're reversible) only in that region, and don't expose it

Skip the Sun! There's an "atmospheric window" in the IR. If you make a material that emits/absorbs (they're reversible) only in that region, and don't expose it to the Sun, then it will cool down to the temperature of space, roughly 3K or -270°C. In practice, it won't cool down anywhere near that much. It'll steal energy from it's surroundings due to conduction/convection, and the amount of energy that's actually radiated in this band by a slightly below room temperature material is pretty minimal. Still neat, entirely passive cooling by radiating to space! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cool...