Sentence examples for inefficient device from inspiring English sources

So protection is an extremely costly, unpredictable, and inefficient device for saving jobs.

But there are many corners you can cut if you are content with a big, ugly, inefficient device that would make a spectacular impression.

He had worked on a machine to comb wool so that the long hairs would be separated from the short, thus allowing their use for different kinds of textiles, and eventually he evolved a successful machine from an earlier, inefficient device built by another inventor.

In some applications, this can lead to difficulties and inefficient devices.

Around 2.7 billion people rely on biomass fuelled inefficient devices for cooking and heating.

According to the event's organizers, more than 3 million people worldwide still rely on inefficient devices for their household cooking and heating.

In the early 1990s, when chemists such as Moungi Bawendi, now an MIT professor of chemistry and scientific advisor at QD Vision, were perfecting techniques for forming precise, uniform quantum dots, some tried to make QD-LEDs but produced only dim, inefficient devices that required about a hundred thousand electrons to coax quantum dots to emit a single photon.

A majority of these households are located in poor rural communities and burn such solid fuels in inefficient devices, often in kitchens that are poorly ventilated, resulting in very high exposures to multiple toxic products of incomplete combustion (1).

In comparison with the inefficient control device using (2,2′-bipyridine)Eu DBM 3 as the red emitter in the same configuration, the introduction of difluorophenylene moiety into the Eu III) complex could possibly account for the improved performance of the title compound.

If people don't stop buying these inefficient electronic devices, electricity consumptions will triple by 2030.

This is not a case in which the asserted problem — i.e., that the plaintiff class cannot prove materiality — "exhibits some fatal dissimilarity" among class members that would make use of the class-action device inefficient or unfair.