steve,
you wrote,
> Over the weekend, a friend put forward his theory that we've got it all
> wrong with electrons (and holes):- power devices actually run on smoke.
> Proof? When the smoke gets out they stop working :-)
this is an old "theory" that hasn't really been formalized into a
proper scientific theory (with equations and the like) but which has
long been recognized to be a truism.
73,
k6gt
George T. Daughters, K6GT
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