I hope to do something similar someday but it still cost petroleum to make them. I’m envisioning an alternative.

This feels like you're focusing on a tiny tiny issue of carbon use generated during manufacturing of solar panels while ignoring the massive massive issue of carbon use during operation of nearly every other utility traditional power generation system.

Wind turbines do cost petroleum to maintain. You have to lubricate them.

All of the petroleum used to lubricate a windmill over its entire lifetime is likely less than the petroleum used in a single day of a traditional petroleum based power generation system of the same capacity.

Can you explain why you're hyperfocused on the small consumption while ignoring the massively larger consumption of alternatives?

I was expecting you to talk about embodied energy in the steel, concrete, copper, composites, silicon, glass, and the diesel trucks, cranes, and helicopters used for installation and maintenance. Most of those could be greenified once there's enough renewables around.

Nope. You care about lubricant. They use stuff all, don't even burn it, and it's not a particularly impossible thing to replace - I'm sure you could synthesize replacements from corn alcohol though you'd still probably need lithium, molybdenum, or whatever other fancy additives are in use.

They used to use whale fat as lubricant.

Congratulations; dumbest take I've seen all year.