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Not really, that's a lovely media graphic and all, but the proper placement of the batteries is shown here, here and here

Anyhow, the batteries are kept below the passenger compartment, and the damage appears to be along the top of the fuselage (just in front of the vertical stabiliser) - I can see no visible visible damage around the area of the aft batteries.

Footage of starboard side
Footage of port side

What I'm curious about is whether Boeing will get them all sorted out quickly enough...in which case they will be superbly positioned to compete, having mastered the many challenges around making the 787 what it is.

You will find that Murphy has a big bucket of bugs to keep dishing out from for the Dreamliner and Boeing.
IMHO This is a product jinxed by management hubris.

I hope they get it all fixed in time, personally. The 787 is a hell of a plane. Check it out here: http://www.newairplane.com/787/

PR drivel, the only vector of exellence for Boeing these days.

The 787 is a revolutionary aircraft on many levels, from features to construction technology to production methods. I would expect there to be unforseen issues resulting from interaction between different systems. What I'm curious about is whether Boeing will get them all sorted out quickly enough...in which case they will be superbly positioned to compete, having mastered the many challenges around making the 787 what it is. If they don't, then they will be in terrible trouble. I feel like I'm watching aeronautical history playing out before my eyes.

I hope they get it all fixed in time, personally. The 787 is a hell of a plane. Check it out here: http://www.newairplane.com/787/

I'm not surprised by unforseen issues from the new technology and design (like the fuel leaks that have been reported), I'm quite surprised to see battery problems since they must have already run the batteries and charging system through many thousands of simulated takeoff/landing cycles both in bench tests and while installed in a test airframe.

The 787 is a revolutionary aircraft on many levels, from features to construction technology to production methods. I would expect there to be unforseen issues resulting from interaction between different systems. What I'm curious about is whether Boeing will get them all sorted out quickly enough...in which case they will be superbly positioned to compete, having mastered the many challenges around making the 787 what it is. If they don't, then they will be in terrible trouble. I feel like I'm watching aeronautical history playing out before my eyes.

I hope they get it all fixed in time, personally. The 787 is a hell of a plane. Check it out here: http://www.newairplane.com/787/

http://www.newairplane.com/welcome/

I'm looking forward to sitting next to the guy in Boeing's "Passenger Experience" video/stills wearing headphones with his drumsticks out. What, is he gonna be drumming on the armrests or something? Even if he's only playing "air drums" and not making noise, how totally obnoxious is that visual gonna be?

This old man
he played 4
he played knick-knack on the emergency exit door.
before the rest of the passengers beat the everloving crap out of him for bringing out drumsticks on a freaking plane ferchrissakes! Jeez!

They did a webcast for this and everything, with no shortage of fanfare: http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html It was interesting, especially with the t-33 escorts buzzing the ground rendezvousing for take off, heh. Anyways, I wanna know when I finally get to fly in one. It'd be nice to fly in a less than 10-20 yr old plane on a 12 hour flight between the US and Japan, ugh.

Boeing's Sonic Cruiser [...] Instead of a been-there-done-that follow on to the 747, Boeing decided to go for speed:

No they didn't, they decided to go for efficiency and to take the safer gamble that airlines (and airports) didn't want a super-jumbo jet. The Sonic Cruiser never got off the drawing board. They're building the 7E7 instead.