Picking a AA Battery

Hey, it's Christmas and everything needs batteries.  Project Farm just put out a video to answer which is best, be they alkaline, lithium, or rechargeable NiMH.  20 minutes, well worth the time (if you're into such).

TLDW + my humble experience: Lithiums have amazing capacity.  Eneloops are the best of the rechargeables, and at 12+ years I can vouch for that.  They're pretty much all that I use.  Alkalines?  Who cares.  Too many of them will leak and ruin good equipment.  Duracells especially – exorcise those cursed objects from your household ASAP.

Finally, I thought after a $185 repair bill to replace my HVAC's thermostat due to Duracell leakage, that I had finally gotten rid of the last Duracell in the house.  Nope.  Last week I found one more, in a little flashlight I kept in my briefcase for years.  One more old faithful tool destroyed by the Curse of the Duracell.  Hopefully that's the last of them.