vacuum tubes for HVDC?

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Nik
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If you have *lots* of vacuum...

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"Now, if for some reason you loose the ability to make silicon..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Ship_Galileo

Yes, it is a Heinlein 'Juvenile /YA' tale. Yes, they use a fission reactor with zinc powder as reaction mass. Yes, they run into Luft46 N*zis.

Pertinently, they salvage broken valves from their space-ship's radio room, improvise a 'naked' transmission vacuum tube and --literally-- tell the world...
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They could have used bits of wire and steel plate. Broken valves are not a requirement. Unless efficiency and fidelity and longevity matter.
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