101 Ways to MAKE FIRE – #4 Flashlight

In this one, we find out how to make fire using a battery powered flashlight. (We call it a torch here in South Africa). Except we don’t use the battery. We use the deep parabolic mirror which is used to focus the light from the globe into a parallel beam. We also introduce tinder fungus into the equation for the first time. I’ll shoe you soon how to find the fungus. Also how to make char-cloth. Having something that can take an ember is very important. This video is part of a series of 101 videos, showing different ways to make fire. It started out as a challenge to myself, to understand the physics and chemistry associated with combustion. Enormous resources go into firefighting and firefighters put their lives on the line every day to save lives and property from destructive fire. Obviously it is easier and cheaper to prevent fire in the first place. Hopefully I can teach people how easy it is for fires to start as a result of ignorance or negligence. Many of these techniques are very old and it is just a question of re-learning ancient skills. There is something very primal and satisfying about being able to start a fire the way our forefathers did. People nowadays seldom even think about fire, without realising that many of the things we take for granted every day have come about as a result of the understanding and control of combustion. An obvious example is the internal combustion engine. However, not many people are aware that the concept of generating heat …
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