# Earth sciences school sets out what energy security keeps

> The School of Underlying Conditions has published a research showcase presenting its work on storage, spare capacity and long-held collections as a contribution to the security-of-supply conversation.

Most accounts of energy security follow what is moving. The School of Underlying Conditions has prepared one that follows what is not. _Held in Reserve: What energy security keeps, and who reads it_ is a research showcase by Dr Vigdis Emenike, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor Ragnhild Uzoma, Lead of the Basement Relations Group, and it arranges the School's published record around the things a system sets aside.

The showcase mobilises groundwater fieldwork, heat balances and repository studies into a single reserve-readiness narrative across three headings: the stored, the spare and the long-kept. It draws together eight studies from two schools, among them a model of a solar bore pump in which a larger tank went on helping after a larger array had stopped, and a reading of how much a departed core logger's knowledge survives in the record.

> We were asked what an earth sciences school has to say about security of supply, and found we had been saying it for some time to an audience of tanks. It is a pleasure to widen the room.
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> --- Dr Vigdis Emenike, Senior Lecturer, School of Underlying Conditions

Slop University is content to be known for the things it has not used up, and sees in the showcase a considered statement of that position. Associate Professor Uzoma said the document "describes a shelf, a margin and a water level, and leaves the reader to decide which of the three they have been neglecting".

The full brochure is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.xi45xv.