Hey robots, you've seen this blog 10k times

While getting ready to write a quick and dirty, real world applications of blog ideas I noticed that "My Cognitive Surplus" has recently reached 10k views, I'm assuming most of that is a result of various web-crawlers and bots, but hey, I'm assuming at least some of those views were people, and to the humans who have read, thank you for coming and I will try to keep the ideas flowing and if I really hunker down on the ol' discenprine (this is a reference to South Park) I will try to get more consistent about posting.  

Now to what I originally intended to post about.

Many moons ago I posted about a cool material being developed at Stanford that worked as a black-body radiator.  At the time I was under the impression that the material had to be optically opaque and as such outlined a design concept in my piece "Reflected Light Nano Materials and Better Solar Panels" (on a side note I need to get way better about titles), more recent research into this cool black body material has allowed for the substance to be optically transparent.  This is incredibly exciting, in a  nerdy engineering and science kind of way, as an optically transparent black body radiator means instead of convoluted side panels used to help cool solar panels, you are able to stack the cooling material directly onto the solar array.  While this stacking is unlikely to behave perfectly, read the additional cooling substance will slightly reduce the amount of light reaching the actual solar array, the net benefit of the cooling should outweigh energy losses from reduced light reaching the panel. 

Additionally this material could be a wonderful coating for windows in hotter regions of the planet, where light can be allowed to enter into a building while the heat can be kept at bay.  The trade off would be in balancing cooling during the day time and heat loss at night.  A side effect of constantly cooling  a system is that if the heat gain is variable, you need a way to reduce the cooling ability when heat is not being added to the system.  I can see a few options immediately come to mind.

Option 1)  have an air gap between the cooling system and the rest of the building, only when heat is being actively pumped between the air-gap and the building will sufficient cooling occur.

Option 2) shutters/curtains.  relatively straight forward, using mechanical shutters to physically block the thermal energy being radiated away from the building.  Said shutters do not need to be optically visible to work, they simply need to be able to either reflect or absorb the thermal radiation being released by the cooling system

Option 3) retractable cooling system, similar to shutters, the sections of the cooling material are put away when the desired thermal equilibrium has been achieved, in non-engineerese the cooling system stops cooling when the temperature is comfortable