Agreed! But think about it also from the perspective of someone who lives in a Third World country who wants to experiment with electronics, but who can't get access to electronic parts.

I'm not sure how you could create a transistor with it however.

I do know that you can create a diode out of a Razor Blade heated to a high temperature via a gas flame such that carbon deposits form on its outside, and a sharpened pencil, where a wire attaches to the carbon on the pencil, then you move the pencil around to find a spot on the razor blade where it works -- this was the operating mechanism in early Crystal Radio sets.

But if only we could create a transistor easily...