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If radiative law scales with the fourth power of temperature and linearly with area, then optimizing for the area is wrong. You’ll get a much strong effect by increasing the temperature to dissipate (using a thermodynamic machine). Just raising the internal temperature from 100K (from 300K to 400K) will give you a 3.16x reduction in the required surface area. So instead of trying to cool the system, you need to heat it, likely using the same solid state technologies that’s used in computer on Earth right now: a vacuum water vapor caloric pipe.
