Why is this pithier than the video? I’m not entirely sure I see added pedagogical value. Asking the rhetorical question how can there be a shortage of energy sounds a little like someone sort-of intentionally misunderstanding what that phrase “energy shortage” means in any practical economic context. “Energy shortage” is an economics phrase, not a physics phrase. The first law of thermodynamics doesn’t suggest there can’t be energy shortages on earth, because the phrase “energy shortage” is not used to suggest a loss of energy to the universe, energy shortages are all about not having enough specific forms of energy in specific places at specific times [1], and it’s no surprise that we can’t capture dissipated heat, or that a local power system has a maximum limit at any given time, for example.
Something similar could perhaps be said for the video’s approach; “what do we get from the sun?” is an ambiguous question, not necessarily a fair setup to ask a lay person when you have entropy in mind as the answer. We do get energy from the sun, that is a correct answer, and we use some of it before it goes away. But, there is the nice a-ha that all the energy from the sun eventually leaves the earth, right?
[1] “An energy crisis or energy shortage is any significant bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_crisis