You said: "...would cool to -270C however much power you dumped into it" and that is not true.
And in any case you don't need to be a perfect emitter to be in equilibrium with the temperature of the cold sink, all you need is infinite time, but any emitter, no matter how bad will eventually equilibrize.
You said: "...would cool to -270C however much power you dumped into it" and that is not true.
And in any case you don't need to be a perfect emitter to be in equilibrium with the temperature of the cold sink, all you need is infinite time, but any emitter, no matter how bad will eventually equilibrize.