Keeping water from freezing without electricity
A low tech way of keeping
water from freezing for livestock is to boil a lot of salt into water
bottles and place those bottles at the bottom of a container.
Pour water over top of the bottles keeping them submerged.
My Mom tried this recently
and reports it works at very low temperatures.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Hmmm... Intriguing idea. What is the maximum and minimum size of the container that you are putting the bottles? I mean, if you have one bottle, is there a minimum or maximum size that the one bottle can handle before the larger container becomes too much?
I wonder if you could put antifreeze in bottles and do that as well? Sounds like an experiment is in order!