Home made fan shroud.

Exactly. If there is a temperature difference. To experience it, stand behind a window on a col..d black night and you will feel your body heat radiating out to the night sky.
I think the factor for surface color is called emissivity. I am going to check on that.

Black radiators cool better than bare metal radiators??? This was new to me. Pretty interesting...

https://www.quora.com/Do-black-engine-radiators-radiate-heat-better-than-non-painted-ones