RAWFUL! Your comment tells me that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Enterprise gear doesn't use disk? Good grief.

"you can make oil simply from CO or CO2, plus water for the H2, plus energy"

Oh, gee. It's that simple? You've just solved the energy crisis! To create a portable energy source like oil, we just have to expend some "plus energy" to combine some carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen.

Say, what is this "plus energy"? And how do you plan on getting past that whole "can't extract more energy than you put in" thing? I know it's a trivial problem and all, but hey...