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Now let's do a quick Case Study inside your teams. 

Open your group’s tab and use the sliders (from 0 to 5 points) to rate each financing path for our investment.   

💡 Important Rule: These paths do not exclude each other—you can use a mix of them! 

Just rate each path on its own: 5 points for the biggest positive impact and 0 points if it brings no effect or is a financial trap.   

🏆 Final Step: Once your sliders are set, click "Confirm and Hide our votes"—at the end, we will see which team got the highest score!  

Let me now summarize the best practice and the lesson from this exercise:

Since we are buying long-term assets like robots and wind farms, we must fund them with long-term money (the Silver Rule). 

That’s why the best strategy is a mix of Path C (5 pts)—combining our own profits with a 10-year green loan—and Path D (4 pts) to share costs via EU grants and a partner, supported a bit by Path A (2–3 pts). Meanwhile, Path B gets 0 points because funding a multi-year factory upgrade with 6-month loans is a deadly liquidity trap!