Aren't your Eneloop's just trademarked top of the line NiMH cells? A quote from the article: "For starters, and this is important, any product that is designed

Aren't your Eneloop's just trademarked top of the line NiMH cells? A quote from the article: "For starters, and this is important, any product that is designed to be used with both rechargeable NiMH and Alkaline primary batteries (a design goal of most good products), must work down to at least 1.1V per cell." IF you can find a device that won't run on a rechargeable (which may be hard to do), then you need an alkaline, thats just how it is. The other argument is financial. I have a cheap wall clock that runs about a year on a AA. The prices are very hard to understand on Amazon but you're looking at about $4 or more per rechargeable eneloop AA and around 40 cents for an alkaline AA in bulk. I think its fair to compare onsie-twosie rechargeables to bulk disposables; isn't that the entire point of being rechargeable? So I need to keep that clock powered up for more than a decade to run a profit on the rechargeable. Honestly I don't think it'll hold up that long. You need to recharge that dude more than, say, every six months, to run a profit, longer than that and its cheaper to dispose. Presumably they don't charge $4 for a top of the line NiMH and 40 cents for an alkaline just for fun, I think its extremely safe to estimate the rechargeable causes at least 10x the environmental damage as the alkaline. Obviously the linear damage is 10x alone, some employee somewhere will get that $4 instead of 40 cents and buy gasoline or food or other petrochemical related substance, plus the issues with nickel refining, the electrolyte is somewhat more exciting, etc. So its not just a financial win.