From: palli...@gmail.com   
      
    Big Bad Boob wrote:   
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   > https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/05/return-vacuum-tube   
   >   
    > cool stuff. Seems to work without a heated cathode. not sure if voltage   
   > "across the source and the drain" is in any way responsible for   
   > thermionic emission or some other mechanism...   
   >   
      
   ** Lemme see  -  there is no vacuum, no tube, no thermionic emission and   
    electrons travel across a tiny air space.  Right ?   
      
   " VaccumTube"   my arse.   
      
    The author must be a u-tuber -  deliberately *misnaming*  to get clicks.   
      
   .....  Phil   
      
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