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Survival Skillset

Lesson 9 of 13

Fire from the sun and from batteries, and the phone

45 min

Some of the most talked-about fire tricks use things you might already have in your pocket: reading glasses, a bottle of water, a torch, a battery, a phone. A few of them are genuinely useful. Some are showpieces that work in a video on a sunny day and rarely anywhere else. And one, sacrificing a phone's battery, is promoted as clever when it is nearly always a serious mistake.

In this lesson

  • Fire from the sun: how lenses work
  • Magnifying lenses and spectacles
  • Water lenses and Fresnel lenses
  • Ice lens
  • Parabolic reflector
  • Battery and steel wool or foil
  • The phone battery judgement call
  • What is being suggested
  • What the phone can still do
  • What happens when a lithium cell is damaged
  • The narrow case
  • Check yourself

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

Every module, practical and exam, self-paced and private, with a certificate at the end.

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