That would be one way that the energy could continue to exist.
Naturally that takes into consideration the assumption that the energy has the form or intelligence that we understand as being a human being.
The scientists do not understand such a concept, perhaps because they can not dissect the process.
To such a scientist the human being is nothing more that a robot that grows according to some self included programming, and also learns and thinks in a way that is also self programmed.
According to that way of thinking, when the plug is pulled, the energy simply dissipates into the environment, since it is nothing more than chemical heat in the first place. (That is a scary thought in my opinion.)