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 Retweet  Gale winds ahead  Wind power is stirring up the
neighbor isles, where the resource would be captured  By Vicki
Viotti  LAST UPDATED: 03:52 a.m. HST, Feb 27, 2011  Mike Hamnett
co-chairs the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, based on the
University of Hawaii-Manoa campus, a vantage point that gives
him an excellent view of the state's many advantages in the
renewable energy movement.  He also sees its handicaps.  "The
problem with Hawaii is that the geography is all wrong," Hamnett
said. "We've got all the people on Oahu and all the resources on
the other islands."  In no case is this mismatch so plainly a
problem as it is with the Hawaii Interisland Renewable Energy
Program (HIREP), a proposal to capture mammoth bursts of wind
energy on the western faces of Lanai and Molokai and then
transmit them to Oahu over hundreds of miles of undersea
cabling, electrical pipes that, state planners promise, ar