Damien Beauchamp

President and CEO, 8 Rivers Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Damian Beauchamp is the President and CEO of 8 Rivers, directing the commercialization of industrial decarbonization and carbon capture technologies. A chemist, he previously co-founded KAir Battery and served on the board of directors of NET Power.

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4 assertions · 1 insight · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Beauchamp: Solar and wind are merely additive to record fossil fuel use

“If you look back to 1800, even biomass today is used more than it was in the 1800. Oil is used more. Gas, coal, everything is used more. And solar and wind were simply additive.”

Damien Beauchamp Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 4:50 The sunk cost dilemma

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What they said6 Episodes1

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Assertion Supported

Beauchamp: Solar and wind are merely additive to record fossil fuel use

“If you look back to 1800, even biomass today is used more than it was in the 1800. Oil is used more. Gas, coal, everything is used more. And solar and wind were simply additive.”

Damien Beauchamp Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 4:50 The sunk cost dilemma

Insight

Beauchamp: Pure hydrogen production fails without a co-located industrial consumer

“The hydrogen, for the sake of hydrogen, doesn't seem to be working. You need to have something that's consuming hydrogen, and you hear a lot of people talk about, you know, the future hydrogen market.”

Damien Beauchamp Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 9:42 The sunk cost dilemma

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Beauchamp: 8 Rivers panicked when SK offtake contract timelines shifted

“There wasn't a firm off-take contract in place, but that moment was one of kind of panic and a feeling of desperation and devastation because of the amount of time, energy, and money that had been put into that particular project because we were trying to do i…”

Damien Beauchamp Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 15:41 The sunk cost dilemma

What-if

Beauchamp: 8 Rivers needs $100M to reach FID on two major projects

“With that hundred million, we would achieve FID on both Cormorant and one of our AFCC projects that we've announced with ENTEC or Pacific Corp. So with that, we would achieve FID and break ground on both of those projects.”

Damien Beauchamp Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 31:10 The sunk cost dilemma

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Beauchamp: 8 Rivers is Siemens Energy's largest external partnership in history

“Internal, To Siemens Energy, this is the largest development program they've ever done in their history in partnership with an outside group. So they have over 200 engineers working on this program. I would say about a hundred of those are full-time.”

Damien Beauchamp Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 27:33 The sunk cost dilemma

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Beauchamp: 8 Rivers has secured 18% offtake for Project Cormorant

“You know, the project is structured to produce 900,000 tons of ammonia, and we've, we found offtake for about 18% of that 900,000, and we're working on, on getting the rest of that ammonia offtake secured.”

Damien Beauchamp Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 12:31 The sunk cost dilemma

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The sunk cost dilemma	Sep 10, 2025	21m

Damien Beauchamp

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