Ugo Bardi
Ugo Bardi (born May 23, 1952 in Florence[1] ) is a profes-
sor 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.
1 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”.
2 Selected publications
2.1 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. Polis-
tampa Firenze 2008, ISBN 885960365X ISBN
9788859603658.
• Ugo Bardi, “The Limits to Growth Revis-
ited”, Springer Briefs in Energy 2011, ISBN
9781441994158.
• Ugo Bardi, “La Terra svuotata”, Editori Riuniti
2011, ISBN 9788864730677.
2.2 Scientific Journals
• Ugo Bardi, Andrea Atrei, Gianfranco Rovida, Initial
stages of oxidation of the Ni3Al alloy: structure and
composition of the aluminum oxide overlayer stud-
ied 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 liq-
uids for hybrid supercapacitors. In: Electrochem-
istry Communications 6, Issue 6, (2004), 566–570,
doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2004.04.005.
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• Gaia Ballerini, Ugo Bardi, Roberto Bignucolo,
Giuseppe Ceraolo, About some corrosion mech-
anisms of AZ91D magnesium alloy. In: Cor-
rosion 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 Pol-
icy 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 liq-
uids 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’ technol-
ogy: A corrosion study. In: Solar Energy Materi-
als 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.
3 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
4 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
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