How to charge ordinary Non-Chargeable batteries

It is generally believed that ordinary alkaline batteries cannot be recharged. This is not so, they can be recharged, but could explode if this is tried. In this video, I experiment with charging non rechargeable batteries whilst avoiding the explosion bit. The experiment is successful and shows a pair of completely dead alkaline batteries sucessfully recharged to their original fully-charged state. - Free Batteries! All music contained in this video is creative commons 3 and provided by