Assertion: turbine's efficiency | /r/HasProperty | low
Facets:
value: in tesla's time
type: TEMPORAL
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Despite its low efficiency, it remains in use because of its robustness and simplicity to build and maintain.
text: This type of combination leads to an excellent compromise, since otherwise an all-impulse turbine would have a very low efficiency and an all-reaction turbine would have an excessive number of stages.
text: In Tesla's time, the efficiency of conventional turbines was low because turbines used a direct drive system that severely limited the potential speed of a turbine to whatever it was driving.
text: Its efficiency is low.