It’s funny reading the comments from TOD sometimes. It took a while for example for the commenters to realize that the whole analysis of the weight of the water/rock on the formation was NOT about pressurizing the formation, but was explaining that the formation couldn’t be at a much higher pressure than the weight or else it would fracture the rock and leak out.
You are working to hard in my opinion, but that’s because I’ve pretty much already accepted the 11,000 psi approximation as rational, and don’t feel like I have to keep re-justifying that when people speculated about 100,000psi pressures.
But I guess someone has to do it. I’m more focused on trying to keep people from turning their distrust of Obama into conspiracies about the government trying to hide oil under fresh sand, or the whole “corexit poison rain wipes out america’s breadbasket”.
See that last link at #37.