CO2 Recycling takes CO2, combine it with other materials and transform them into higher value end products. In the case of Carbon Sciences technology, the product is fuel. Fuel produced from CO2 transformation is the same as normal fuel such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. There is no storage risk and the commercial value can offset the costs of traditional carbon capture and sequestration systems.

CO2 Burying or Sequestration takes CO2 and buries it. The main approaches contemplated by large CO2 emitters today for mitigating CO2 include geologic storage and ocean storage. These methods have issues concerning energy requirements and the viability of long term storage. Most importantly, the cost of monitoring and leakage prevention of the stored CO2 is ongoing, therefore reaches infinity - just like the monitoring of nuclear waste.