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Dr. Melissa Lott
@mclott.bsky.social
Engineer exploring tech/econ/health impacts of the #energytransition to #netzero | Energy & Climate Communicator
Thanks to everyone who reached out to ask about my next professional chapter in response to today’s article

Update: I’m heading west and will be publicly sharing details on my new role just before Halloween
🎃 🤐

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October 10, 2024 at 11:23 PM
“Human bodies tend to use sleep time to lower temperatures and recover from a brutally hot day; if temperatures don’t drop enough, people sleeping without air conditioning — or, say, people in major cities that didn’t get their power back for a week after a storm — don’t get that chance”
July 17, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Driving in Tennessee this week — and each of our last 3 Tesla charging stations have increased in size by 2-3x since our August ‘23 trip

Can’t help but wonder how much this region’s history (read: TVA) is influencing the build out @joshdr83.bsky.social

#energytransition #electrification
June 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
What an awesome start to the week! Just had coffee with Alon Tal. Thanks 🙏 for the great conversation and the copy of your latest book with @IslandPress, Alon! Can’t wait to dive into it 📖 😀 #climatetech #energytransition
June 10, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Awesome to see the trailer for #RisingTides drop!

Enjoyed recording with Philip Boucher-Hayes on campus here at Columbia University last fall. And am excited to see how it all has come together.

Huge thanks to Natalie Volk for all her hard work sorting the logistics for recording that day!
March 25, 2024 at 12:54 PM
"It makes perfect sense that the IEA should seek to include India as a full member given the outsized role the country will play in the global energy transition over the next decade or so..." www.business-standard.com/opinion/colu...
March 6, 2024 at 11:44 PM
It’s live! Episode 1 of the latest season of #TheBigSwitch is now available wherever you get your #podcasts. In this season we are diving into batteries. 🔋

In episode 1 we explore how we make batteries and ask “Are batteries the new oil?”

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February 28, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Join us for a virtual event on March 4 on Nuclear Power --- including the role of nuclear energy, past cost overruns experienced in US reactor projects, and prospective strategies to achieve cost-effective outcomes in the future.

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February 22, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Another beautiful, snowy morning here at Columbia ❄️⛄️
February 17, 2024 at 1:06 PM
My colleagues took a look at the BIG WIRES Act to understand how close the bill might come to realizing its intended benefits and accelerate the construction of new electricity transmission projects that cross existing electric grid boundaries 👇

www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/estimating-i...
February 9, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Have to add — Working the whole PBS NOVA team + Natalie Volk and Jen Wu from our team at the SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy was a big highlight in my 2023 🙏 #energytransition #climatecommunication
December 29, 2023 at 1:43 AM
This film focused on solutions to climate change because “it’s important - after raising concerns about climate change for so long - to give people some ideas of where the levers are to change it” said Miles…

(And I completely agree)
December 29, 2023 at 1:41 AM
Thank you again to the AGU for this honor.

/end 🧵
December 14, 2023 at 8:09 PM
It was an incredible night here in San Francisco #AGU23 with Jason Bordoff, Natalie Volk, and so many of my talented and passionate colleagues from across the scientific community.

As I said in my brief (<400 words) remarks…

Short🧵 👇
December 14, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Enjoyed recording @theenergygang.bsky.social on the ground here at #COP28 with @edcrooks.bsky.social

It was a good conversation about initial impressions, big announcements, challenges, and why we are (or are not) more optimistic after a few days here in Dubai.

🎧 here: okt.to/rpY7N3
December 7, 2023 at 7:46 AM
Thrilled to host the first ever Energy Opportunity Forum here Columbia hosted by the CGEP Energy Opportunity Lab --- and was inspired as always by Dr Diana Hernandez (lead of our US work) and Andrew Kamau (lead of our international work) as well as the incredible keynote by the Hon. Shalanda Baker
November 20, 2023 at 10:47 PM