We camp in Hushville, so we do not use a genny at all.

Solar lights ... many, mostly camp markers and guy line markers. You can't see reliably by solar lights.

In the main area we keep a candle "burning" ... one of those Christmas window candles with batteries and an electric eye. Provides basic navigation light for folks coming in to their tents.

We have one florescent light fixture, it lights up the entire shade area. It plugs into an inverter, which is alligator clipped to a 12 V deep cell marine battery. The trick is to turn off the light when it isn't in use. IF we need to recharge the battery, and we usually do not, we have a briefcase solar panel. We also use that inverter to recharge camera batteries. We have a second deep cell on the bike for lights (big bike). We do have a larger set of solar panels but have never needed to use them. Plus we have several solar chargers for batteries, just in case.

Individual tents use flashlights or battery lanterns. We have Colemans which run on fuel, but they are too hot and bright. I think we've use ours twice. Also have headlamps and magneto flashlights for potty trips.

We have a hand-crank blender and a wind-up radio.

There are three things the playa provides in abundant quantity:

Dust
Sunlight
Wind

I don't think anyone has figured out how to make electricity from dust, so your options are Solar and Wind power generation.

Google is your friend, let them fingertips run and let us know what you find.

T

bicycle cranked generator

I used something very similar to this:

www.hectorshardware.biz/shop/product.asp

It had two cig lighter plug ins, I ran a computer 12v sound sytem for my ipod off of it, and a few lights etc. this year I have a cig lighter to usb so I plan to have lots more stuff to plug into it, it lasted the entire event without a single recharge. It does however plug into a standard household plug if you need to recharge it.