Ugo Bardi

Ugo Bardi (born May 23, 1952 in Florence^[1]) is a professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Florence.^[2] Married in 1976 to his wife Grazia he is a father of two, Francesco and Donata.

Work

Bardi is a researcher on materials for new energy sources, a contributor for The Oil Drum. He is the president of ASPO Italy, a member of the scientific committee of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) and author of several books, including "The Limits to Growth Revisited".

Selected publications

Books

• Ugo Bardi, "La fine del petrolio", Ed, Riuniti 2003. ISBN 9788835954255.
• Ugo Bardi, Giovanni Pancani, "Storia petrolifera del bel paese", Ed. Le Balze 2006. ISBN 8875391262.
• Ugo Bardi, "Il libro della Chimera", Ed. Polistampa Firenze 2008, ISBN 885960365X ISBN 9788859603658.
• Ugo Bardi, "The Limits to Growth Revisited", Springer Briefs in Energy 2011, ISBN 9781441994158.
• Ugo Bardi, "La Terra svuotata", Editori Riuniti 2011, ISBN 9788864730677.
• Ugo Bardi, "Extracted. How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet", Chelsea Green Publishing 2014, ISBN 9781603585415.

Scientific Journals

• Ugo Bardi, Andrea Atrei, Gianfranco Rovida, Initial stages of oxidation of the Ni3Al alloy: structure and composition of the aluminum oxide overlayer studied by XPS, LEIS and LEED. In: Surface Science 268, Issues 1–3, (1992), 87–97, doi:10.1016/0039-6028(92)90952-3.
• Andrea Balduccia, Ugo Bardi, Stefano Caporali, Marina Mastragostino, Francesca Soavi, Ionic liquids for hybrid supercapacitors. In: Electrochemistry Communications 6, Issue 6, (2004), 566–570, doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2004.04.005.
• Gaia Ballerini, Ugo Bardi, Roberto Bignucolo, Giuseppe Ceraolo, About some corrosion mechanisms of AZ91D magnesium alloy. In: Corrosion Science 47, Issue 9, (2005), 2173–2184, doi:10.1016/j.corsci.2004.09.018.
• Ugo Bardi, The mineral economy: a model for the shape of oil production curves. In: Energy Policy 33, Issue 1, (2005), 53–61, doi:10.1016/S0301-4215(03)00197-6.
• Stefano Caporali, Alessio Fossati, Alessandro Lavacchi, Ilaria Perissi, Alexander Tolstogouzov, Ugo Bardi, Aluminium electroplated from ionic liquids as protective coating against steel corrosion. In: Corrosion Science 50, Issue 2, 2008, 534–539, doi:10.1016/j.corsci.2007.08.001.
• Ilaria Perissia, Ugo Bardi,Stefano Caporali, Alessio Fossati, Alessandro Lavacchi, Ionic liquids as diathermic fluids for solar trough collectors’ technology: A corrosion study. In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 92, Issue 4, (2008), 510–517, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2007.11.007.
• Ugo Bardi, Peak oil: The four stages of a new idea. In: Energy 34, Issue 3, (2009), 323–326, doi:10.1016/j.energy.2008.08.015.

References

1. "ASPO 2005 IV International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion – Biographies". cge.uevora.pt. University of Évora. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
2. professional page on Florence University's web site

External links

• "Effetto Cassandra" Ugo Bardi's blog in Italian
• ASPO Italy
• "Cassandra's legacy" Ugo Bardi's blog in English
• The Oil Drum, Blog on Peak Oil