Talk:Ice Mine/@comment-208.102.41.255-20140606201203/@comment-7081587-20140725161145

What I was picturing was a layer of ice fairly deep under the surface, although instead of pure ice it was more in the form of permafrost (a misture of ice and regolith.)  The Ice Mine II would, in addition to separating the ice and regolith, also do the same processing as the regolith processing plant 2 with the exception that any hydrogen per day freed from the regolith would be combined with oxygen to produce some additional water. That would not ammount to much more water since the regolith processing plant 2 only produces one unit of hydrogen a day on average.