Does anyone have a tool/workshop that runs entirely on solar energy?

[Kolesar]

1. I met an entrepreneur with an off-grid house and shop

He started fabricating gardening tools with a router. He used a gasoline fired generator to run the router. He lived with a tiny solar array that was 250 to 500 watts. He didn't watch much TV. His phone was cell phone that he kept on a charger. His refrigerator was a chest freezer that he replumbed to operate at 40 degrees; it used scant electricity. There was no furnace fan because he used a wood stove in his A-frame house.

Perhaps a battery backed PV system could give you the high current necessary for when you switch on the motors. Having the shop tied into grid power would be a sure thing.

I like the idea of PVs for the shop because the solar electricity would be available during the day when you are working in the shop. The grid tie would be nice because you could feed power back into the system when you were not working. You could get a net metering reimbursement and that power could be used to offset CO2 emissions, generally.