A section in Chapter 1 of the book:
Prep Lists for Camping, Hiking, and Backpacking
Emergency: Electricity
In most cases—especially in an urban or suburban environment, there are tools around you to assist with fire starting.
- Electric Cigarette Lighter in most vehicles
- Car Battery and jumper cables or other wire: The spark produced by touching the wires together is hot enough to light most tinder or fuel.
- 9-Volt Battery & steel wool: Slide terminals across steel wool, next to tinder, to capture the heat of the burning metal.
- AA or AAA Battery with a gum wrapper: Cut foil wrapper to create an hourglass shape, funneling and intensifying the electrical current through a tiny space, heating it to a flame.
- Improvised Battery (remember those high school science experiments with potatoes?)
Emergency: Sunlight Refraction
Use any of the following to focus bright sunlight on a tiny spot of highly-flammable tinder. To help, consider making your tinder as warm as possible, like placing it in an aluminum box like a solar oven. This requires bright sunlight, focused on good tinder, with skill and practice to bring a smoking ember to full flame.
Lenses (convex)
- Magnifying lens
- Eye glasses
- Binoculars
- Telescope
- Rifle Scope
- Spotting Scope
- Camera Lens
- Camera Telephoto Lens
- Fresnel lens
- Car headlight/taillight lens
- Clear light bulb filled with water
- Wine goblet filled with water
- Icicle
- Ice lens
- Glass bottle
- Plastic water bottle
- Clear bag of water
Parabolic (concave) Reflectors
- Soda can bottom (polished)
- Flashlight reflector
- Aluminum foil in bowl shape
- Car headlight/taillight reflector
- Steel ladle
Emergency: Other
- Road Flares, which burn hot and bright for half an hour
- Flare Gun, flare ammo from a shotgun, or incendiary ammo
- Shotgun, by firing cloth wads after removing projectiles
- Model Rocket Igniters for a burst of sparks
- Grinding Tools to throw sparks
- Chemicals—if you are a Chemist, you have many options
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