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Sandy.
Papersatan:
My boyfriend's wife has one that uses wood. You build a little fire in it and it charges a cell phone. She bought it for when she goes up to their cabin, which has no power, but where she does get a cell signal.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 04 Nov 2012, 14:13 ---I've found when camping that a torch placed on an upturned bottle of water is quite a good method of scattering a directional beam. I'll post pics if anyone is interested and I can find a camera.
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Please do: I don't have a clear mental picture. And I'm short on area lighting in my disaster kit.
For recharging devices, a car charger is wonderful, at least if you have a Prius, which minimizes wasteful idling.
One maker of LED emergency lighting hooked one of their products up to a lithium battery, set it on low, and left it. It was still glowing a year later.
Redball:
I keep a 25-watt solar panel connected to a deep-cycle battery in the basement for a ham station I haven't touched in too many years. But the battery has been handy during a couple of power failures.
bainidhe_dub:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 04 Nov 2012, 19:30 ---
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 04 Nov 2012, 14:13 ---I've found when camping that a torch placed on an upturned bottle of water is quite a good method of scattering a directional beam. I'll post pics if anyone is interested and I can find a camera.
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Please do: I don't have a clear mental picture. And I'm short on area lighting in my disaster kit.
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Good to know that actually works. I keep seeing this on Pinterest, but of course trust nothing you see on Pinterest.
But I was able to do this in a brightly lit office with just a 500mL bottle and cheapo giveaway LED flashlight:
(I don't know why this picture refuses to stay rotated. Arg.)
The slightly white plastic of a milk jug would probably be an even better diffuser.
Carl-E:
My daughter was flipping through xkcd's last night, and found this;
But it was the rollover text that got her...
"I'd like to see more damage assessments for hurricanes hitting New York and flooding Manhattan -- something like the 1938 Long Island Express, but aimed a bit more to the west. It's just a matter of time."
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