I was wondering about the feasibilty of this, but I thought that useful tubes needed a harder vacuum than that. Is this really "good enough" for a triode?

I figured the wire-holding/element-holding aspect of a standard tube was in the base, and the glass-to-base seal is the important part. You can have a less-hot metal holding the filament and penetrating through the base. But I haven't looked carefully. These are my off-the-top-of-my-head thoughts about it.

> "good enough"

Probably not. The classic fix is a "getter".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getter

> Is this really "good enough" for a triode?

Let us not overlook that its also a lot of energy. Its not a matter of "good enough", I think in this case - more "can I?" ..