Where do typhoons get their energy?

Answer 1

Typhoons get their energy from warm, very moist air, with moisture provided by warm ocean water. As the air is drawn up into the typhoon it cools and the moisture condenses, releasing enormous amounts of energy.

Answer 2

The Sun.

If you follow the news around, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons always form above huge bodies of water near the equator. There are a lot of factors that need to be analyzed to properly explain it, but here is a simple explanation:

A typhoon (or either of the other two names) forms when water evaporates from the warm ocean. The Sun's energy is transformed into the water molecules' kinetic energy. This energy is then used to go up into the atmosphere. In the process, the water molecules transfer some of their energy to the air, causing a vertical air current.

Since there is a lot of water that just keeps on evaporating, the energy buildup is also large, both in the water and the air that surrounds it. Given enough time, and combined with the Coriolis effect (which adds energy to the typhoon by making it spin), the energy in that region becomes large enough that the storm produced has become a typhoon.

Answer 3

Typhoons get their energy from the warm ocean waters. As the warm air rises and cools, it condenses to form clouds and releases latent heat, which fuels the storm's intensity and sustains its circulation.

Answer 4

The energy for tropical cyclones comes from warm tropical oceans. These cyclones can last for several days, and typically dissipate over colder oceans or over land.