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In the global push for harnessing energy in a vast number of scenarios, the Tesla Turbine stands out as a potential niche device in various small-scale applications. This device can be fabricated rapidly, using locally available materials and conventional manufacturing operations. Despite these advantages, several technological challenges have held back the development of the Tesla Turbine. Besides, modern bladed turbines have a much broader range of applications. Another issue is that this turbine’s most recent experiments were focused on numerical tests or findings from the computational simulation. Very few studies that were conducted resulted in low-efficiency ratings. For advanced applications such as particulate flow, biomedical, and some modern machining methods that use abrasive particle-rich fluids, Tesla turbines can also be used as it is not sensitive to mixed fluids compared to conventional bladed turbines. Moreover, the construction cost of a Tesla turbine is meager compared to bladed turbines. Thus, the cost-to-performance ratio is higher than that of conventional turbines, which the authors believe could pose much interest for both further research and development.