How can a tent use solar power?
Recreational camping is all about communing with nature. It’s the differences from regular life that make it count: Cooking over a fire instead of over a gas stove, sleeping under the stars instead of under a solid roof, carrying water on your back instead of turning on a faucet. It’s all very romantic. Until you wake up in the middle of the night with a bursting bladder and can’t find the flashlight you could’ve sworn you put next to your sleeping bag. If there’s one thing that could be improved about camping, it’s the nighttime lighting situation. Battery-powered flashlights get lost among gear pretty easily, and anything battery-powered has finite run-time. Battery-powered lanterns are notorious energy hogs. They can eat eight D-size batteries in a couple o