Folks,

Allow me to be naïve and somewhat ideal here, but if you happen to be a
manufacturer of polystyrene supers, not the old plastic that has proven
itself unworthy, please consider the following challenges:

1. Produce them cheaper than the current price. (I hear your guffaws)

2. Put in multi-colors so that they don’t need to be painted for good.

3. Consider utilizing fungus-resistant, or germ [spore]-killing
ingredient mixed in the polystyrene mix [this, I realize, could be
dangerous, strengthening the microbes in the long run, however
inadvertently].

4. Screened bottom board and mouse guard should come pre-installed.

5. Punch in upper vent holes as well in the manufacturing process.

6. Make them biodegradable.  (How? I dung no)

7. Consider the breathability in the composition of the poly mix.

8. Make them expandable/assembleable sideways so that one can easily
expand the poly from a three-frame nuc box into three hundred-frame
producer, thus eliminating heavy lifting. (Yup, a wishful thinking)

9. Make the poly more durable that a few bumps would not dent the
structure.

10. Make them packable tightly for the migratory bees.

11. Add here some more points I slipped.

Finally, when you have made good money on these futuristic supers, how
about investing into a mobile irradiation chamber a sideliner can afford—
so that he/she can take the AFB-infected poly boxes inside and ZAP them in
no time?  I am sticking my neck out here to say, on record, that such
super supers will be actualized in America before I quit.


Thanking and thinking all of you who chipped in your thoughts . . .


Humdinger from Shawnee, OK