Ugo Bardi Explained

Ugo Bardi (born 23 May 1952 in Florence, Italy^[1]) is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Florence.^[2]

Career

Bardi is a researcher on materials for new energy sources, a contributor to the now-defunct website, "The Oil Drum". He is the co-founder and former president of ASPO Italy, a member of the scientific committee of the (ASPO),^[3] a member of the Club of Rome,^[4] and author of several books, including The Limits to Growth Revisited.

Personal life

Bardi was married in 1976 to his wife Grazia and is a father of two, Francesco and Donata.

Works

Books

• Book: Bardi, Ugo. La fine del petrolio. Ed. Riuniti . 2003. it. 9788835954255.
• Book: Ugo. Bardi. Pancani. Giovanni. Storia petrolifera del bel paese. Ed. Le Balze. 2006. it. 8875391262.
• Book: Bardi, Ugo. Il libro della Chimera. Ed. Polistampa . Firenze. 2008. it. 9788859603658.
• Book: Bardi, Ugo. The Limits to Growth Revisited. Springer Briefs in Energy. 2011. 9781441994158. .
• Book: Bardi, Ugo. La Terra svuotata. . 2011. 9788864730677.
• Book: Bardi, Ugo. Extracted. How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. 2014. 9781603585415.
• Book: Bardi, Ugo. The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid. Springer International Publishing. 2017. 978-3-319-57206-2.
• Book: Bardi, Ugo. Before the Collapse. A guide to the other side of Growth. Springer International Publishing. 2020. 978-3-030-29037-5. 10.1007/978-3-030-29038-2. 204741627 .
• Book: Ugo. Bardi. Perissi. Ilaria. The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy. Springer International Publishing. 2021. 978-3-030-51897-4. 10.1007/978-3-030-51898-1. 231905322 .
• Book: Ugo. Bardi. Carlos. Alvarez Pereira . Limits and Beyond: 50 Years on from The Limits to Growth, what Did We Learn and What's Next?. en. 2022. Exapt Press. 9781914549038.

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, .
• Andrea Balduccia, Ugo Bardi, Stefano Caporali, Marina Mastragostino, Francesca Soavi, Ionic liquids for hybrid supercapacitors. In: Electrochemistry Communications 6, Issue 6, (2004), 566–570, .
• 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, .
• Ugo Bardi, The mineral economy: a model for the shape of oil production curves. In: Energy Policy 33, Issue 1, (2005), 53–61, .
• 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, .
• Ilaria Perissi, 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, .
• Ugo Bardi, Peak oil: The four stages of a new idea. In: Energy 34, Issue 3, (2009), 323–326, .

See also

• Seneca cliff
• Hubbert curve
• Club of Rome

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: ASPO 2005 IV International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion – Biographies. cge.uevora.pt. University of Évora. 1 February 2013.
2. Web site: Ugo Bardi . Università degli Studi di Firenze . 17 November 2020.
3. Web site: Campbell . Colin J. . About ASPO . Peak Oil . 17 November 2020 . 14 February 2008.
4. Web site: Ugo Bardi . Club of Rome . 1 June 2021.