*Yes, recharging Alkaline batteries may be done, but you only get practically something like 20 cycles out of them with reasonable capacity. And they can't be charged at any decent speed, so it's not really useful enough for the charger to be marketable.** **Actually, as I wrote that, I remembered there was a company producing "Renewal" batteries -- they couldn't be recharged, being alkaline, but they could be "renewed" in a special battery charger "renewing station". Wonder if they were just selling an alkaline charger, and plain alkaline cells (with a "Renewal" label) for higher $$.